Just the info I was looking for (as I have a Linode VPS that isn't used for anything Bitcoin-related). Still, I'll just go ahead and run my usual log scraping and intrusion detection scripts, might as well be diligent.
...so the system is not as foolproof as you'd like since memory takes time to to swap, and deadlocks across cores can happen when a computing resource is shared.
I didn't say it was foolproof, nor did I think it. I merely pointed out that one advantage of multiple CPU cores is when a runaway process tries to use every available CPU cycle (not any other resource, just CPU, some programs do stupid things like this) and the underlying OS allows it to do this it is a good thing to have more cores so you don't have to sit around and wait for the device to register user input (I had a Nokia smartphone which had a few programs that seemingly did this, they'd begin to process data and lock up the whole phone when they hung).
More cores means better multitasking since threads can run in parallel. Also, even for handheld devices you are unlikely to find, for example, a single-core CPU that is four times faster than each core of a quad-core CPU.
Another major advantage of multi-core systems is if a poorly written piece of software locks up it is highly likely to also be single-threaded and your system will chug along nicely despite the misbehaving program, allowing you to kill the process (by comparison, on a single-core system you're likely to suffer through five minutes of waiting for the system to respond before you are able to kill the process). Sure, in an ideal world this wouldn't happen but when it does happen it's nice to not be locked out of your system because of a single process misbehaving.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smartphones, software for smartphones or anything really.
They do however have a product (the iPhone) which is designed to only receive software authorized by Apple (through the App store) but this is not a monopoly, there are plenty of competing products on the market.
Spyware is software, the SPIES on you. A virus is a self-propagating program. A trojan is a piece of malware disquised as something else. Ergo, spyware trojan is not the same as a spyware virus. Semantics, yes, but it's better than calling everything a virus.
We can access the cloud using WiFi and Bluetooth! Streamed synergized multimedia content played back with software rented from the integrated Web 2.0 cloud accessed over a wireless connection is the future!
The best part about this initiative from my perspective is that these data centers rarely wind up in Stockholm (where a lot of the other IT and dev jobs are) but rather in smaller cities up north where power and land are cheap. And while a data center itself might not bring all that many jobs (I believe I read somewhere that the estimate for Facebook's data center in Luleå was something like 30 to 50 permanent jobs) it does mean that infrastructure is put in place which makes the region more attractive to other companies looking to build data centers. It is also likely to create jobs in the surrounding area and long-term it prevents "brain drain" in the form of skilled workers moving to Stockholm, Malmö och Göteborg just to find work.
The term became "cool" when people figured out ways of bricking iPhones. It was then rapidly expanded to include any kind of malfunction of an iPhone (all in the name of bashing Apple and getting more visitors to whatever blog published the article). These days "bricking" something seems to just be another way of saying "cause any kind of malfunction or failure which temporarily or permanently leaves the device unusable".
(And for the usual Apple haters: Nowhere in the above paragraph did I say iPhones or Apple are perfect or that iPhones can't be rendered unusable)
I'm not worried, I'm sure they'll add some kind of filtering ability in v1.1, it should be working perfectly by v1.6 or so (although I fully expect it to break in random and exciting ways when the all-new 2.0 is released).
You jest but imagine the day that we get good brain-machine interfaces (cue the jokes about fingers and keyboards). You don't think people will start linking their minds in various ways? Just imagine sex or drug use while linked in such a fashion (or for the more boring types, imagine working on a project with ha bunch of other developers, all linked directly to each other, no more boring meetings, you'll know instantly that Joe needs that database dump and what changes Steve want made to the invoice module). Sure, initially it's likely to be fairly primitive but eventually I suspect it'll be like cellphones, a few people will absolutely refuse to use them but for most people the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages.
Every time someone makes that argument I think of stories like The Road Not Taken (summary: aliens show up, detect no FTL drives on earth, conclude we'll be an easy target, land, try to take over using matchlock weapons, get slaughtered, humanity realizes what a bunch of idiots we've been for not figuring out FTL travel on our own, galaxy is fucked....)
I'm hoping that the next Macbook Pro has something similar to the "retina" displays in terms of PPI. Even cooler would be if this was also true for the next iMac generation.
The one thing that's keeping me from getting a laptop as my next main computer is the native screen resolution, I want a 200+ PPI 15" monitor (if they also came out with a similar display for the 27" iMac I'd have to weigh other factors into it as well)...
From what I've heard from people who do game development the usual project cycle tends to be that you spend the first 20-30% of the project barely working at all, then it's normal work until the last 20% of the project where the overtime increases every day/week until you're pulling 80+ hour weeks and sleeping under your desk the last few weeks. Hell, I even had a project manager at a studio tell me this when he was trying to explain how awesome working for them was...
Of course the simple compromise is to show the actual costs including taxes and fees and then require that it be broken down somewhere else: On your receipt, confirmation email, before you type in your payment information -- whatever suits the particular situation. But compromise is a dirty word in American culture these days, so it will all depend on which faction can steamroll the other into doing it their way.
And that's how it's done here in Sweden. Your receipt shows just how much of what you are paying is taxes but the advertised price has to be including taxes (so as not to mislead customers).
The restaurant stupidity seems to have been a matter of our current government succumbing to blind ideological impulses combined with lobbyism from the restaurant owners of this great country. The moment I heard of the suggestion to lower taxes on restaurant meals my first thought was "lobbyists, and they'll go along with it without a second thought because it matches their ideology"...
Yeah, I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to "the alliance" randomly making changes without much thought, at least when the left (S+V+MP) do it there is public outrage, the alliance just get away with it.
In other countries this is solved by laws demanding that all prices advertised to individuals (as opposed to companies) or where the target customer is clearly an individual include sales tax. So prices including the sales tax are conveniently set to nice round numbers.
Should we even live past that age - from a practical perspective?
I'd rather take population control and live to be a thousand years old. The trick here being, of course, to make sure that when you age you don't spend the first 50 of those years healthy and then spend 950 years old and weak.
I suspect most others would feel the same way. I'd gladly sign a contract stating that I would not procreate irresponsibly if it meant I could lead an extremely long and healthy life.
And *many* 17 year old/cannot/ make an informed decision around an older mature person, despite what they think they may want. But at least by 18, we can draw a line in the sand, and say that it is time to learn life's lessons the hard way if that is what you must do.
Who are "we"? Where I live the age of consent is 15 (as in, once someone is 15 it's perfectly legal to have sex with them even if you're 25, 41 or 78). It varies by country. Even here in Europe it varies between 13 and 18, in North America it varies between 12/onset of puberty to 18. Hell, even in the US it varies between 16 and 18 depending on state.
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Just the info I was looking for (as I have a Linode VPS that isn't used for anything Bitcoin-related). Still, I'll just go ahead and run my usual log scraping and intrusion detection scripts, might as well be diligent.
I've never heard of anyone even trying to do that, the standard installation procedure on OS X is to drag the .App bundle/dir to /Applications.
Greater than 90% of the market.
Here in Sweden they had nowhere near 90% of the market (although I do know the iPod was wildly popular in the US).
They didn't. That's my point.
Sorry, misread your original post.
...so the system is not as foolproof as you'd like since memory takes time to to swap, and deadlocks across cores can happen when a computing resource is shared.
I didn't say it was foolproof, nor did I think it. I merely pointed out that one advantage of multiple CPU cores is when a runaway process tries to use every available CPU cycle (not any other resource, just CPU, some programs do stupid things like this) and the underlying OS allows it to do this it is a good thing to have more cores so you don't have to sit around and wait for the device to register user input (I had a Nokia smartphone which had a few programs that seemingly did this, they'd begin to process data and lock up the whole phone when they hung).
How did Apple have a monopoly on MP3 players? There were plenty of others on the market although the iPod was the best-selling one.
And even if they did have a monopoly, in what way did they abuse this monopoly?
More cores means better multitasking since threads can run in parallel. Also, even for handheld devices you are unlikely to find, for example, a single-core CPU that is four times faster than each core of a quad-core CPU.
Another major advantage of multi-core systems is if a poorly written piece of software locks up it is highly likely to also be single-threaded and your system will chug along nicely despite the misbehaving program, allowing you to kill the process (by comparison, on a single-core system you're likely to suffer through five minutes of waiting for the system to respond before you are able to kill the process). Sure, in an ideal world this wouldn't happen but when it does happen it's nice to not be locked out of your system because of a single process misbehaving.
Why would it be time for an antitrust case?
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smartphones, software for smartphones or anything really.
They do however have a product (the iPhone) which is designed to only receive software authorized by Apple (through the App store) but this is not a monopoly, there are plenty of competing products on the market.
Spyware is software, the SPIES on you. A virus is a self-propagating program. A trojan is a piece of malware disquised as something else. Ergo, spyware trojan is not the same as a spyware virus. Semantics, yes, but it's better than calling everything a virus.
We can access the cloud using WiFi and Bluetooth! Streamed synergized multimedia content played back with software rented from the integrated Web 2.0 cloud accessed over a wireless connection is the future!
Most likely because the Nordic countries have better infrastructure than Alaska, especially if you take latency to Europe into account.
The best part about this initiative from my perspective is that these data centers rarely wind up in Stockholm (where a lot of the other IT and dev jobs are) but rather in smaller cities up north where power and land are cheap. And while a data center itself might not bring all that many jobs (I believe I read somewhere that the estimate for Facebook's data center in Luleå was something like 30 to 50 permanent jobs) it does mean that infrastructure is put in place which makes the region more attractive to other companies looking to build data centers. It is also likely to create jobs in the surrounding area and long-term it prevents "brain drain" in the form of skilled workers moving to Stockholm, Malmö och Göteborg just to find work.
The term became "cool" when people figured out ways of bricking iPhones. It was then rapidly expanded to include any kind of malfunction of an iPhone (all in the name of bashing Apple and getting more visitors to whatever blog published the article). These days "bricking" something seems to just be another way of saying "cause any kind of malfunction or failure which temporarily or permanently leaves the device unusable".
(And for the usual Apple haters: Nowhere in the above paragraph did I say iPhones or Apple are perfect or that iPhones can't be rendered unusable)
I'm not worried, I'm sure they'll add some kind of filtering ability in v1.1, it should be working perfectly by v1.6 or so (although I fully expect it to break in random and exciting ways when the all-new 2.0 is released).
You jest but imagine the day that we get good brain-machine interfaces (cue the jokes about fingers and keyboards). You don't think people will start linking their minds in various ways? Just imagine sex or drug use while linked in such a fashion (or for the more boring types, imagine working on a project with ha bunch of other developers, all linked directly to each other, no more boring meetings, you'll know instantly that Joe needs that database dump and what changes Steve want made to the invoice module). Sure, initially it's likely to be fairly primitive but eventually I suspect it'll be like cellphones, a few people will absolutely refuse to use them but for most people the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages.
Well, here's a list of some of their previous projects.
Every time someone makes that argument I think of stories like The Road Not Taken (summary: aliens show up, detect no FTL drives on earth, conclude we'll be an easy target, land, try to take over using matchlock weapons, get slaughtered, humanity realizes what a bunch of idiots we've been for not figuring out FTL travel on our own, galaxy is fucked....)
You should look for IPS monitors, not TN. TN are cheap but they are also not very good when it comes to color reproduction and viewing angle.
I'm hoping that the next Macbook Pro has something similar to the "retina" displays in terms of PPI. Even cooler would be if this was also true for the next iMac generation.
The one thing that's keeping me from getting a laptop as my next main computer is the native screen resolution, I want a 200+ PPI 15" monitor (if they also came out with a similar display for the 27" iMac I'd have to weigh other factors into it as well)...
From what I've heard from people who do game development the usual project cycle tends to be that you spend the first 20-30% of the project barely working at all, then it's normal work until the last 20% of the project where the overtime increases every day/week until you're pulling 80+ hour weeks and sleeping under your desk the last few weeks. Hell, I even had a project manager at a studio tell me this when he was trying to explain how awesome working for them was...
Of course the simple compromise is to show the actual costs including taxes and fees and then require that it be broken down somewhere else: On your receipt, confirmation email, before you type in your payment information -- whatever suits the particular situation. But compromise is a dirty word in American culture these days, so it will all depend on which faction can steamroll the other into doing it their way.
And that's how it's done here in Sweden. Your receipt shows just how much of what you are paying is taxes but the advertised price has to be including taxes (so as not to mislead customers).
The restaurant stupidity seems to have been a matter of our current government succumbing to blind ideological impulses combined with lobbyism from the restaurant owners of this great country. The moment I heard of the suggestion to lower taxes on restaurant meals my first thought was "lobbyists, and they'll go along with it without a second thought because it matches their ideology"...
Yeah, I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to "the alliance" randomly making changes without much thought, at least when the left (S+V+MP) do it there is public outrage, the alliance just get away with it.
In other countries this is solved by laws demanding that all prices advertised to individuals (as opposed to companies) or where the target customer is clearly an individual include sales tax. So prices including the sales tax are conveniently set to nice round numbers.
OS X doesn't have service packs. "Service Pack" is MS terminology.
Should we even live past that age - from a practical perspective?
I'd rather take population control and live to be a thousand years old. The trick here being, of course, to make sure that when you age you don't spend the first 50 of those years healthy and then spend 950 years old and weak.
I suspect most others would feel the same way. I'd gladly sign a contract stating that I would not procreate irresponsibly if it meant I could lead an extremely long and healthy life.
And *many* 17 year old /cannot/ make an informed decision around an older mature person, despite what they think they may want. But at least by 18, we can draw a line in the sand, and say that it is time to learn life's lessons the hard way if that is what you must do.
Who are "we"? Where I live the age of consent is 15 (as in, once someone is 15 it's perfectly legal to have sex with them even if you're 25, 41 or 78). It varies by country. Even here in Europe it varies between 13 and 18, in North America it varies between 12/onset of puberty to 18. Hell, even in the US it varies between 16 and 18 depending on state.