They're getting C++ ready for a heterogeneous computing system. Can you imagine hand rolling code that will leverage an integrated GPU, a discrete GPU, a co-processor, and a 32 thread main CPU? Are you going to manage allocation copying and deallocation across all those devices?
Remember, in the next decade, we may see hundreds of computer configurations with mixtures between Intel larrabee, AMD Fusion, multiple GPUs, and even cloud computing as an extension of the computer. You will be able to write code once and it will not only run on it all, but it will also leverage all the resources available. Hand coding that would be a nightmare.
You're looking at the past when you should be looking at the future.
"or randomly disappearing because you forgot to keep a reference to them" Really? That's an example why GC is bad? I think losing track of your data is poor programming, no matter which language you use.
"creating a heap of new ones" fixed by adding pun
But really, memory leaks with a GC is much easier to debug. There's very few corner cases to "leak" with a managed language.
Having a programmer pull double duty as a receptionist would be instant death to any company. Most programmers around here have that standard dry sarcastic humor that would probably cost the company money if we had to interact with real people. Great bunch to work with.
Can't enter our server rooms with out special electronic keys. Not getting past our receptionists without a guest pass and someone to vouch for you to sign off on the guest pass.
"Cereal may be sold by weight, but it is consumed by volume. Different cereals have wildly differing densities (e.g. Grape-Nuts vs. Rice Krispies), so the weight of a cereal box is not really a good indicator of how many bowls of cereal the box contains. The consumer's impression of how much cereal they're getting is still going to be based on the size of the box."
Ever sit down and eat 5 bowls of Rice Krispies?
Next question.. Ever sit down and eat 5 bowls of Gape-Nuts? I would love to see you try.
When I eat Grape-Nuts, I put a tiny amount at the bottom of the bowl. That stuff is FILLING!
In central WI, I'm getting 19mbps on my 18mbps Charter connection. Even during peak.
Their back-bone infrastructure is quite good, so I would assume it's an overloaded node. You guys DOCSIS3.0 yet down there in Mad town?
Also, check into their business packages. I've heard in other forums that business connection take different routes than residential and you get nearly no jitter at all.
The even better car analogy is they advertise the car with a top speed of 65mph at red line, but that's with 19" rims, and the car only comes with 17" rims... and you can't change them.
It will be hard not to take this as negative, but I really mean it as an inquisitive question.
Shouldn't IT be looking at what's changing between patches and not worrying about version numbers? Also testing patches?
I've worked in IT, but not the part for the general day-to-day work, just the hard to solve problems. I know the other people at my work would test all Windows patches before pushing live.
Again, I haven't ever had to worry about these things, so I find it curious about "version numbers" being and issue.
ATI/AMD/INTEL/NVIDIA/ARM/IBM have all been doing this since CPUs first came out. The only difference is Intel wants to make it a "soft" change instead of a hard one.
Kind of line the ATI6950 bios flash mod to re-enable shaders. The new 6950s can't be flashed anymore because they laser cut them. It costs ATI more money to use a laser cut than a bios flash, but if it keeps people from "hacking" their cards and getting a free upgrade.
I love my job. I look forward to going to work. We're constantly creating new and better ways to help people while trying to maintain industry standards for security. We have almost no turn-over. Our average person has been with us for 7 years with over 30% over 12 years, which is quite good for a 15 year old company.
I don't plan on changing jobs unless something severe changes.
But I guess that's what happens when your company is ran mostly by ex-teachers, engineers, and researchers.
Well, the idea is to fine companies who don't try "enough". There will always be security problems, but companies that don't even keep up with the industrial minumum should be heavily fined.
If you don't like their services, don't use them. It's not like the have a monopoly on internet communications. If you want to be anonymous, I'm sure there are A LOT of alternatives.
People don't use pseudonym just because they want to be anonymous.
Pet names, short names, handle, stage name, pen name. They aren't trying to be anonymous, but they like to have different names for different reasons. These are just a few examples of perfectly fine reasons for a pseudonym.
If you're a political activist under a bad government, you may want to use something more secure than FB or G+.
If you're using FB/G+ for what 99% of people use it for (communicating with friends/family), you have no reason to be anonymous, short of stalking. Use your privacy settings and be careful what you post to people. I don't need to be anonymous, I just need to limit access to my personal data. Even if someone can look me up on G+, if I set my privacy stuff up, you're not gonna get crap outside of my name, which you already had in the first place. I didn't lose anything.
I'm sure there's a few corner cases, but they can use something else. If there's enough demand for anonymous style FB, then someone will make one.
"That's not the case though. Otherwise, it can't authenticate to another network Mac"
If you RTFA, you would see that the infected Mac sits on the network and waits for the administrator account to connect. When the Admin account tries to authenticate, the infected machine "steals" a copy of the admin authentication. It can then use the credentials to connect as Admin to the entire network.
So yes, a local admin account can take over the network admin account.
"Anybody else think thunderbolt is a technology looking for a solution? USB is cheaper, almost as fast, and ubiquitous. There are probably literally millions of USB devices that work with a USB port."
I don't think you understanding the difference between TB and USB. TB is meant to replace PCIe, HDMI, SATA, etc. Just wait for the teamable 40gbit optical version that's coming out in a few years.
Let me ask you this hypothetical situation. Imagine you have a computer 10 years from now, it has no PCIe slots or anything like that. All it has is a bunch of USB ports and you connect your 64 teraflop videocard to your motherboard via the USB ports, your 4GB/sec SSD via USB, and your 2100p 36bit monitor via USB.
People would say that this is completely stupid because USB isn't meant for this situation and would be horrible. Well, TB *IS* meant for this, will do this, and will do it better than anything else that exists or has been announced.
I'm not sure if this would happen, but I could see it happening. TB will eventually switch to a fiber phys. Once it does that, it will have a cheap fiber connection that is good for 40/100gbit. Could you imagine if NICs adopted the connection? I'm not saying to also adopt the TB protocol, but just make use of the connection for a cheaply mass-produced 100gbit 100meter fiber phys.
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FF3.X doesn't have any more support. You're recommending to use a browser with known security holes? Just tell people to use IE6.
They're getting C++ ready for a heterogeneous computing system. Can you imagine hand rolling code that will leverage an integrated GPU, a discrete GPU, a co-processor, and a 32 thread main CPU? Are you going to manage allocation copying and deallocation across all those devices?
Remember, in the next decade, we may see hundreds of computer configurations with mixtures between Intel larrabee, AMD Fusion, multiple GPUs, and even cloud computing as an extension of the computer. You will be able to write code once and it will not only run on it all, but it will also leverage all the resources available. Hand coding that would be a nightmare.
You're looking at the past when you should be looking at the future.
"or randomly disappearing because you forgot to keep a reference to them"
Really? That's an example why GC is bad? I think losing track of your data is poor programming, no matter which language you use.
"creating a heap of new ones" fixed by adding pun
But really, memory leaks with a GC is much easier to debug. There's very few corner cases to "leak" with a managed language.
Having a programmer pull double duty as a receptionist would be instant death to any company. Most programmers around here have that standard dry sarcastic humor that would probably cost the company money if we had to interact with real people. Great bunch to work with.
Sounds like a game of cat and mouse../snicker.....So.. if a rat hooks a fiber to it's head, would it be a rat with a freak'n laser on its head?
What old browsers are you using? IE9, Chrome 11+, FF4+. I don't really have issues making one page to just work.
Can't enter our server rooms with out special electronic keys. Not getting past our receptionists without a guest pass and someone to vouch for you to sign off on the guest pass.
"Cereal may be sold by weight, but it is consumed by volume. Different cereals have wildly differing densities (e.g. Grape-Nuts vs. Rice Krispies), so the weight of a cereal box is not really a good indicator of how many bowls of cereal the box contains. The consumer's impression of how much cereal they're getting is still going to be based on the size of the box."
Ever sit down and eat 5 bowls of Rice Krispies?
Next question.. Ever sit down and eat 5 bowls of Gape-Nuts? I would love to see you try.
When I eat Grape-Nuts, I put a tiny amount at the bottom of the bowl. That stuff is FILLING!
In central WI, I'm getting 19mbps on my 18mbps Charter connection. Even during peak.
Their back-bone infrastructure is quite good, so I would assume it's an overloaded node. You guys DOCSIS3.0 yet down there in Mad town?
Also, check into their business packages. I've heard in other forums that business connection take different routes than residential and you get nearly no jitter at all.
The even better car analogy is they advertise the car with a top speed of 65mph at red line, but that's with 19" rims, and the car only comes with 17" rims... and you can't change them.
It will be hard not to take this as negative, but I really mean it as an inquisitive question.
Shouldn't IT be looking at what's changing between patches and not worrying about version numbers? Also testing patches?
I've worked in IT, but not the part for the general day-to-day work, just the hard to solve problems. I know the other people at my work would test all Windows patches before pushing live.
Again, I haven't ever had to worry about these things, so I find it curious about "version numbers" being and issue.
ATI/AMD/INTEL/NVIDIA/ARM/IBM have all been doing this since CPUs first came out. The only difference is Intel wants to make it a "soft" change instead of a hard one.
Kind of line the ATI6950 bios flash mod to re-enable shaders. The new 6950s can't be flashed anymore because they laser cut them. It costs ATI more money to use a laser cut than a bios flash, but if it keeps people from "hacking" their cards and getting a free upgrade.
I completely forgot about instant. I disabled it a long while back, but at least I don't spam forum complaining about it when it's so easy to disable.
You should see the dual core 2ghz 1GB ram cell phones that are coming out.
I love my job. I look forward to going to work. We're constantly creating new and better ways to help people while trying to maintain industry standards for security. We have almost no turn-over. Our average person has been with us for 7 years with over 30% over 12 years, which is quite good for a 15 year old company.
I don't plan on changing jobs unless something severe changes.
But I guess that's what happens when your company is ran mostly by ex-teachers, engineers, and researchers.
Well, the idea is to fine companies who don't try "enough". There will always be security problems, but companies that don't even keep up with the industrial minumum should be heavily fined.
How we determine this, I don't know.
Because your single player toon is the same toon for multiplayer
If you don't like their services, don't use them. It's not like the have a monopoly on internet communications. If you want to be anonymous, I'm sure there are A LOT of alternatives.
Yes, we replaced Google with Bing because MS is so perfect now and those millions of dollars of support Google gives to opensource is just plain evil.
drama much?
People don't use pseudonym just because they want to be anonymous.
Pet names, short names, handle, stage name, pen name. They aren't trying to be anonymous, but they like to have different names for different reasons. These are just a few examples of perfectly fine reasons for a pseudonym.
If you're a political activist under a bad government, you may want to use something more secure than FB or G+.
If you're using FB/G+ for what 99% of people use it for (communicating with friends/family), you have no reason to be anonymous, short of stalking. Use your privacy settings and be careful what you post to people. I don't need to be anonymous, I just need to limit access to my personal data. Even if someone can look me up on G+, if I set my privacy stuff up, you're not gonna get crap outside of my name, which you already had in the first place. I didn't lose anything.
I'm sure there's a few corner cases, but they can use something else. If there's enough demand for anonymous style FB, then someone will make one.
From my end, I'm more concerned of being able to find old friends from long long ago. If they're using pseudonyms, how can I find them?
Actually, Google says you can use pseudonyms, as long as other people that you know also know that name.
Just my opinion.
I would bet it won't be more than 12v, since PSUs only output 5/12v
"That's not the case though. Otherwise, it can't authenticate to another network Mac"
If you RTFA, you would see that the infected Mac sits on the network and waits for the administrator account to connect. When the Admin account tries to authenticate, the infected machine "steals" a copy of the admin authentication. It can then use the credentials to connect as Admin to the entire network.
So yes, a local admin account can take over the network admin account.
"Anybody else think thunderbolt is a technology looking for a solution?
USB is cheaper, almost as fast, and ubiquitous. There are probably literally millions of USB devices that work with a USB port."
I don't think you understanding the difference between TB and USB. TB is meant to replace PCIe, HDMI, SATA, etc. Just wait for the teamable 40gbit optical version that's coming out in a few years.
Let me ask you this hypothetical situation. Imagine you have a computer 10 years from now, it has no PCIe slots or anything like that. All it has is a bunch of USB ports and you connect your 64 teraflop videocard to your motherboard via the USB ports, your 4GB/sec SSD via USB, and your 2100p 36bit monitor via USB.
People would say that this is completely stupid because USB isn't meant for this situation and would be horrible. Well, TB *IS* meant for this, will do this, and will do it better than anything else that exists or has been announced.
I'm not sure if this would happen, but I could see it happening. TB will eventually switch to a fiber phys. Once it does that, it will have a cheap fiber connection that is good for 40/100gbit. Could you imagine if NICs adopted the connection? I'm not saying to also adopt the TB protocol, but just make use of the connection for a cheaply mass-produced 100gbit 100meter fiber phys.
France is eyeing up Florida already.