Youtube uses your google account for login. I really dont think you want your gmail credentials out in the open.
And Chrome WILL warn you if there is mixed content-- they just do it with an icon rather than a popup. The popup you noticed originated at least as far back as IE6, and possibly earlier.
No, computer. Browsers tend to use the system trusted root cert info. On OSX you install certs to the system certificate chain to get SSL errors to disappear in your browser, email, etc. Ditto on Windows for RDP, email, browsing, and VPNs (SSTP).
Firefox may be the odd man out-- I believe it uses its own internal trusted roots list.
Not just intel. Use a modern AMD processor or any Xeon E3 or above, and you can hit in excess of 10gbit/sec of AES traffic thru the processor alone (not even counting accelerators). I understand there are PCIe accelerators out there by Exar that can give a pretty substantial boost as well.
Now that Google has carried the https over to Youtube, some silly browsers (e.g. IE8) prompt on the loading of every damned page because there's a mix of secure and non secure content. Really smart.
Im glad youre not in charge of making browsers. The reason thats a big deal is because when you request an SSL page that has a valid cert, the assumption is that your connection is secure from MITMs. If some of the content on the page is insecure, the value of SSL is basically nil: someone can inject html / js that overlays the secure content, so instead of putting usernames / passwords into a secure submission form you are putting it into the attackers overlaid insecure submission form. Once you press submit, that data is transmitted in the clear, you likely get an error page asking you to try again, and the attacker now has all your info.
Thats why all browsers with a clue let you know about that gigantic, ridiculous, glaring security hole with mixed content.
If PETA is using these tactics to catch these hunter's in the act, I would assume that whatever the hunters are doing is already illegal.
First, its not PETA, and even if it were thats a terrible assumption to make. What PETA wants has no correlation with what is legal and in many cases no correlation with what is sane.
Plus, the article seems to indicate that what they are doing is NOT illegal. This group (SHARK) simply doesnt like it.
Admittedly I chose the most well known example of stupidly long load times I could think of, but until playing disc-based games I do not think I ever saw a load time, and that was my first impression-- "whats the benefit if I have to stay here loading all the time".
What kind of RAM is it that has that kind of speed? Are you talking about flash memory? Even ancient, 15-year-old DDR200 RAM would be ridiculously fast compared to disk access, ESPECIALLY for random access (access time of ~100ns, which is ~50x faster than disk; transfer speed of ~1600MB/s, which is ~10x faster than disk). The discrepency is even greater with modern RAM, which is pretty cheap-- 3-10ns latency, and 6.5-13GB/sec transfer.
The ENTIRE POINT of RAM is that it has good random read characteristics; if something has bad random read performance and good sequential, you are dealing with rotating media, and the only way I can see of making disk vs RAM even remotely comparable is by hooking the RAM to something on a PCI bus-- but the random performance would STILL destroy even the best of SSDs.
Im not exactly clear why, rather than using ridiculously cheap modern DDR3 RAM at ~$4/GB, or even ancient DDR1 / DDR2 RAM, they would go with some alternative techology that sucks at random access. If disk speed is better, why wouldnt they just throw a 500GB disk in as main memory? Again, can you clarify what type of RAM we're dealing with here?
I don't remember the full results but I think we figured out accessing the hard drive on the Xbox360 was faster than the RAM on the WiiU too.
Forgive me if Im skeptical of an AC claiming that a company who has been creating consoles for 30+ years managed to make RAM slower than disk access. That would be basically impossible to pull off even if you were specifically trying to do so; theres about 3 orders of magnitude difference between the speed of the two.
Cache vs RAM is also a bit hard to believe, but at least there youre only talking one or two orders of magnitude.
I also dont remember any substantial load times for any cartridge-based games. If you want a good comparison, compare the performance of Chrono Trigger on the SNES to the Chrono Trigger / Final Fantasy CD for the Playstation; every time you paused or had a battle on the PS version, you incurred a 30 second load time which made the game unplayable.
There are a lot of benefits to discs, but there are also a lot of drawbacks-- notably, seek performance sucks compared to cartridge.
I do. I'm aware that there's some weird embed-an-excel-table-in-a-word-document thing you can do (isn't that where OLE came from?) but I haven't seen it *used*
Its awesome for creating quotes where they want a line-item. I suppose you could create a table in word by hand, which sounds painful, or merge a bunch of cells in excel for a space for word processing, which sounds even more painful, but Id rather just use word for the talky stuff (quote information, business names, etc) and excel for the data (quantity, unit price, totals).
Its been a while, but generally the issues have been around odd behavior: you have in mind a specific layout for a document, and OOo just makes it infuriating to set up that way, or has wierd conventions that insists on following. Office has had this at various points, but as I remember things were much worse under OOo.
As I recall, you also cannot embed spreadsheets into documents, which is kind of nice for doing quotes where you have quantity and unit cost, and would rather the spreadsheet take care of all the manual labor of lining things up and totaling.
Calc is worse, IMO, just as Excel is correspondingly better. Things like poor conditional formatting, odd behavior choices (I think "delete", rather than clearing a cell, brings up an annoying dialog asking you what, precisely, you want to delete), inability to embed, and generally feeling like a holdover from the 90s in how it responds.
Ive used calc for years to do my time accounting, and it does the job, but i do get occasional complaints about how it prints funny, and its occasionally a PITA compared to excel. And functionality aside, honestly the interface is a problem-- it seems like its a lot harder to do things in Calc than in any of the office versions ive used, ribbon or no.
More likely, the Microsoft-indoctrinated employees don't want to learn a new interface, and have spent the last few years whining about it.
Lets be clear here, the OOo interface sucks compared to MS Office, even if you ignore the lacking functionality.
Its a little unreal that people are unable to accept that some people find OOo lacking, and instead insist that "they must be doing it wrong". No, theyre not, and statements like this are why so many FOSS projects are hobbled by awful interfaces. Admit theres a problem, and fix it, dont tell the customer that theyre too stupid to use your wonderful product.
What they DID say in the article is that Freiburg is using OOo 3.2.1, which is two-and-a-half years old.
The average Office suite cycle is more than 2.5 years. Youre saying that on top of their general aggravation with OOo, they need to do network-wide Office suite upgrades every year or so?
It was in response to a post that rightfully got modded flamebait. The problem is, it was equally flamebait, but because it was anti-corporation and pro-bitcoin, it got modded up.
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Youtube uses your google account for login. I really dont think you want your gmail credentials out in the open.
And Chrome WILL warn you if there is mixed content-- they just do it with an icon rather than a popup. The popup you noticed originated at least as far back as IE6, and possibly earlier.
No, computer. Browsers tend to use the system trusted root cert info. On OSX you install certs to the system certificate chain to get SSL errors to disappear in your browser, email, etc. Ditto on Windows for RDP, email, browsing, and VPNs (SSTP).
Firefox may be the odd man out-- I believe it uses its own internal trusted roots list.
Youre on the wrong site if you want to avoid stupid partisan arguments.
I dont think you want to bring slavery into the party politics discussion, if as I suspect you are a democrat. Best to leave that hornets nest alone.
You mean those same governments whose root certs are already in 90% of computer trust chains?
Protip: your computer very likely trusts a root cert from a Chinese company with "strong" ties to their government. Sleep well.
Not just intel. Use a modern AMD processor or any Xeon E3 or above, and you can hit in excess of 10gbit/sec of AES traffic thru the processor alone (not even counting accelerators). I understand there are PCIe accelerators out there by Exar that can give a pretty substantial boost as well.
Now that Google has carried the https over to Youtube, some silly browsers (e.g. IE8) prompt on the loading of every damned page because there's a mix of secure and non secure content. Really smart.
Im glad youre not in charge of making browsers. The reason thats a big deal is because when you request an SSL page that has a valid cert, the assumption is that your connection is secure from MITMs. If some of the content on the page is insecure, the value of SSL is basically nil: someone can inject html / js that overlays the secure content, so instead of putting usernames / passwords into a secure submission form you are putting it into the attackers overlaid insecure submission form. Once you press submit, that data is transmitted in the clear, you likely get an error page asking you to try again, and the attacker now has all your info.
Thats why all browsers with a clue let you know about that gigantic, ridiculous, glaring security hole with mixed content.
If PETA is using these tactics to catch these hunter's in the act, I would assume that whatever the hunters are doing is already illegal.
First, its not PETA, and even if it were thats a terrible assumption to make. What PETA wants has no correlation with what is legal and in many cases no correlation with what is sane.
Plus, the article seems to indicate that what they are doing is NOT illegal. This group (SHARK) simply doesnt like it.
I think the hunters are expecting-- and getting-- the same result every time they shoot the drone.
Admittedly I chose the most well known example of stupidly long load times I could think of, but until playing disc-based games I do not think I ever saw a load time, and that was my first impression-- "whats the benefit if I have to stay here loading all the time".
What kind of RAM is it that has that kind of speed? Are you talking about flash memory? Even ancient, 15-year-old DDR200 RAM would be ridiculously fast compared to disk access, ESPECIALLY for random access (access time of ~100ns, which is ~50x faster than disk; transfer speed of ~1600MB/s, which is ~10x faster than disk). The discrepency is even greater with modern RAM, which is pretty cheap-- 3-10ns latency, and 6.5-13GB/sec transfer.
The ENTIRE POINT of RAM is that it has good random read characteristics; if something has bad random read performance and good sequential, you are dealing with rotating media, and the only way I can see of making disk vs RAM even remotely comparable is by hooking the RAM to something on a PCI bus-- but the random performance would STILL destroy even the best of SSDs.
Im not exactly clear why, rather than using ridiculously cheap modern DDR3 RAM at ~$4/GB, or even ancient DDR1 / DDR2 RAM, they would go with some alternative techology that sucks at random access. If disk speed is better, why wouldnt they just throw a 500GB disk in as main memory? Again, can you clarify what type of RAM we're dealing with here?
Better question, does "correct target" have any meaning when the jury has not yet convicted anyone of hacking you?
As far as I am aware, most first world countries' legal systems do not allow the offended party to act as judge and jury.
. I think it's fair to say that the PS4 will infact be a bog standard 0x64 PC dressed up like a console.
Im going to assume you meant x64 or 64-bit; Im unaware of any 100-bit computers currently on the market ;)
I don't remember the full results but I think we figured out accessing the hard drive on the Xbox360 was faster than the RAM on the WiiU too.
Forgive me if Im skeptical of an AC claiming that a company who has been creating consoles for 30+ years managed to make RAM slower than disk access. That would be basically impossible to pull off even if you were specifically trying to do so; theres about 3 orders of magnitude difference between the speed of the two.
Cache vs RAM is also a bit hard to believe, but at least there youre only talking one or two orders of magnitude.
I also dont remember any substantial load times for any cartridge-based games. If you want a good comparison, compare the performance of Chrono Trigger on the SNES to the Chrono Trigger / Final Fantasy CD for the Playstation; every time you paused or had a battle on the PS version, you incurred a 30 second load time which made the game unplayable.
There are a lot of benefits to discs, but there are also a lot of drawbacks-- notably, seek performance sucks compared to cartridge.
See, my face didn't change at all.
Well, except for the part where you stuck your fingers in your ears and went "lalalala".
Pencils are cheaper than Office. Doesnt mean theyre a suitable replacement.
That is only a good thing.
Then I would rather use Office 2003, which is faster to load, faster to work in, less arcane, and more feature rich.
But what is the advantage of OO ? Free software ? Makes my documents unshareable
Thats not really true; OOo can save as 2003 / 2007 formats, and I believe Office can read open-document formats.
I do. I'm aware that there's some weird embed-an-excel-table-in-a-word-document thing you can do (isn't that where OLE came from?) but I haven't seen it *used*
Its awesome for creating quotes where they want a line-item. I suppose you could create a table in word by hand, which sounds painful, or merge a bunch of cells in excel for a space for word processing, which sounds even more painful, but Id rather just use word for the talky stuff (quote information, business names, etc) and excel for the data (quantity, unit price, totals).
Its been a while, but generally the issues have been around odd behavior: you have in mind a specific layout for a document, and OOo just makes it infuriating to set up that way, or has wierd conventions that insists on following. Office has had this at various points, but as I remember things were much worse under OOo.
As I recall, you also cannot embed spreadsheets into documents, which is kind of nice for doing quotes where you have quantity and unit cost, and would rather the spreadsheet take care of all the manual labor of lining things up and totaling.
Calc is worse, IMO, just as Excel is correspondingly better. Things like poor conditional formatting, odd behavior choices (I think "delete", rather than clearing a cell, brings up an annoying dialog asking you what, precisely, you want to delete), inability to embed, and generally feeling like a holdover from the 90s in how it responds.
Ive used calc for years to do my time accounting, and it does the job, but i do get occasional complaints about how it prints funny, and its occasionally a PITA compared to excel. And functionality aside, honestly the interface is a problem-- it seems like its a lot harder to do things in Calc than in any of the office versions ive used, ribbon or no.
More likely, the Microsoft-indoctrinated employees don't want to learn a new interface, and have spent the last few years whining about it.
Lets be clear here, the OOo interface sucks compared to MS Office, even if you ignore the lacking functionality.
Its a little unreal that people are unable to accept that some people find OOo lacking, and instead insist that "they must be doing it wrong". No, theyre not, and statements like this are why so many FOSS projects are hobbled by awful interfaces. Admit theres a problem, and fix it, dont tell the customer that theyre too stupid to use your wonderful product.
So you're using these products not because they make you more productive but because of philosophical beliefs
Well, that seems to be the in-vogue thing here; certainly its what slashdotters seem to expect of the German city gov't in question.
What they DID say in the article is that Freiburg is using OOo 3.2.1, which is two-and-a-half years old.
The average Office suite cycle is more than 2.5 years. Youre saying that on top of their general aggravation with OOo, they need to do network-wide Office suite upgrades every year or so?
Get real.
It was in response to a post that rightfully got modded flamebait. The problem is, it was equally flamebait, but because it was anti-corporation and pro-bitcoin, it got modded up.