"You take care of the ounces, and the pounds will take care of themselves" was a phrase I learned in scouting regarding reducing the weight of a backpack.
When improving a system it does make sense to go for the most impactful problems first. It is, however, a better practice to have these concerns up front during the planning process. If there is concern about wasting $500M, then there is no way that $3T can get wasted.
I have been very happy with 16GB, as it has allowed me to turn paging off. Combined with an SSD drive, the machine is very snappy - I rarely have to wait for anything...
What is needed is a proxy organization. Something like Wikileaks, who can take from the white hats, and manage disclosure to the outside (company affected, etc). This way a white hat can report issues to the proxy with less risk of being prosecuted or sued by idiot entities.
If you look at that AMD Fusion design, they have already addressed this. The memory will be shared between CPU and GPU, and the 'transfer' from CPU to GPU will simply be a pointer exchange. In fact, Fusion is doing away with the concept of a GPU being a discrete device - the GPU that is presented to the OS is really only a virtual device wrapping a bunch of the vector processing units.
I really haven't had much use for the Android marketplace, but I did decide I wanted to check out what Angry Birds was all about. Going into the marketplace and searching for "Angry Birds" returned an absolute mess of results. As a user, I shouldn't have to weed through all of the crap to find a well-known application, especially since Google is first and foremost a search engine company.
If I had to guess, this would be a multi-point approach solution. The service would feed content to XBox, Media Center PC, and a set top box.
Keep in mind that for many users (my parents being an example), an 'appliance' is what they are looking for, and the XBox and Media Center PC don't fit that criteria. I don't want to deal with the XBox UI just to watch a TV program. The XBox also does not have digital cable decoding, etc. Media Center PC requires that a geek live in the house, to keep the damn thing patched etc. I personally use a Media Center box at home, but wish I had something more basic and closer to fixed function.
The biggest competitor to Microsoft in the areas they have traditionally been successful is....Microsoft. Windows XP has been "good enough" for a large audience, and 10 years from now, Windows 7 will be "more than good enough" compared to whatever version of Windows will be shipping then. Same with Office. Most of the other applications are either given away for free, or are not nearly as profitable.
The reason Microsoft is so interested in "the cloud", is that these are services they put reoccurring charges on. Xbox live memberships, Zune pass memberships, streaming media (music, movies, etc), are all services they can charge for until the end of time.
Microsoft is still hurting from the loss of market share for search (Google) and Music (iTunes). Of course they are interested in streaming video, and so is Apple and Google. Whichever one creates the market place that obtains the most users is in place to have a cash cow that can be milked for a very long time.
As a Microsoft employee and stock holder, I do want them to go after this market, because there is a lot at stake here. Unless Microsoft has a strong strategy, Apple will likely be the victor within the next year or two.
I guess I am not the only one that is thinking that "Free Internet" SSID is a perfect vector for a MIM attack. Has anyone heard of any cases where it has already been exploited?
If you refuse to show the child porn on your computer (and there is no child porn there) then throwing you in jail for not showing the files is equivalent to throwing your ass in jail for not providing whereabouts of a body of a person, when you have no idea about the body and you are innocent of any crime there.
Bad analogy. This would be like preventing the police from searching your house, where they believe the body to be. The computer is a container of the information, much like a safe would be for physical documents. The police are asking to look inside the container for the evidence, not asking you where the evidence is.
I was under the impression that there is no standard for encoding a video stream, and that the standard is in the decoding of the stream.
It makes it unlikely that this comparison of codecs shows the full potential of one standard over another - and I would be wary of drawing any conclusions.
This is not an indication that it's OK. It's an indication that there's something rotten at the core.
And do you know what is also rotten at the core? The consumer. Before you mod me flamebait, consider this: The consumer drives the price down by buying the cheapest computer available. This causes a race to the bottom, where businesses cut as much cost as possible. You think that Dell is greedy, but many of the consumers are not contributing to a win-win deal. You pay for what you get, which is why Apple is generally a better brand.
So for fucks sake, quit putting all of the blame on the corporation. The consumers also play a role in scenario - and have contributed to the situation.
Actually, this is inaccurate. Satan wasn’t really the creator of IE.
This is how it went down: After walking the Earth, Satan met up with the Creator (of IE). The Creator mentioned his loyal servants whose job it was to maintain IE, and how they praised the name of the Creator.
Satan then pointed out that these folks with jobs only praised the Creator because they were not in misery; and thus Satan bet the Creator (of IE) that if the spoils were taken away, then these folks would cease to sing praise. The Creator accepted the bet, and implemented much pain into IE.
After years of pain, it is hard to remember if or when IE was ever good. However, those with faith believe that at some point IE will be restored to a less torturous product.
In summary, it wasn’t the product of Satan, but Satan did have influence.
Reality is people are too stupid to do this because the do not understand their rights, the informed minority is outnumbered by the ignorant majority. In theory the free market is supposed to work this way, in practice it absolutely does not as we've seen again and again.
Interesting that you consider those of us in the majority 'ignorant'. The Halo/xBox environment is similar to Apple, where by participating, users have joined into a more locked down environment. It is a mistake to assume that the "ignorant majority" don't understand the benefits of a regulated experience.
Just because the model does not meet your needs, does not mean this is true for everyone.
I have had plenty of times shocking myself when playing with what I thought were safe devices. Here are a couple that caught me off guard:
1: Capacitors. Even though you are unplugged and powered off, a capacitor can be holding a surprise for you. The one that I learned on was built into a camera flash: So even though the device was powered by a couple of AA batteries (removed), sitting in wait was a capacitor with several thousand volts. I recall getting up off the floor wondering WTF just happened.
2: Relays. These devices use an electromagnet to move a metal reed, which closes (or opens) the connection for another circuit. Be aware that when a magnetic field collapses, electricty is 'made'. So even though I was driving the electromagnet with 9v, the shock I got when the field collapsed was likely several hundred volts. This wouldn't have been quite the problem, if I weren't using the relay to drive the relay (the switched circuit was closed in the unpowered position, and open when powered) - which creates an oscillator. This means that I shocked myself quite a few times before I could get the breadboard off of my hand.
Another way to phrase what parent is saying is that the database is a shared resource. It only takes *one* poorly written ad-hoc query to screw performance for everyone interfacing with the database.
Another difficulty is to database schema changes. Want to change to a partitoned table? Can't really do that when the DBA has no idea how all of the client apps are interfacing with the tables using dynamic SQL. I have seen too many situations where the end result was that the DBA made the change, and waited until applications started breaking to figure out how people were (incorrectly) using the schema.
Additionally, the memory manager will write active paged memory to disk without paging the data out of RAM. This is done so that when you hibernate your machine, much of what is in memory is already written to the disk. The machine can therefore hibernate much more quickly than if it had to write the full active working set of RAM to disk.
My group does onsite visits to customer facilities. Often these locations do not have a network for us to tether into - which is why the MiFi is perfect for us. The group (under 5) can all connect out on my MiFi device and get very reasonable speed network access. This allows us all to stay on email, or RAS back into our corporate network.
Note: We only need one device for this - and not an telco account for every user.
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"You take care of the ounces, and the pounds will take care of themselves" was a phrase I learned in scouting regarding reducing the weight of a backpack.
When improving a system it does make sense to go for the most impactful problems first. It is, however, a better practice to have these concerns up front during the planning process. If there is concern about wasting $500M, then there is no way that $3T can get wasted.
I have been very happy with 16GB, as it has allowed me to turn paging off. Combined with an SSD drive, the machine is very snappy - I rarely have to wait for anything...
What is needed is a proxy organization. Something like Wikileaks, who can take from the white hats, and manage disclosure to the outside (company affected, etc). This way a white hat can report issues to the proxy with less risk of being prosecuted or sued by idiot entities.
If you look at that AMD Fusion design, they have already addressed this. The memory will be shared between CPU and GPU, and the 'transfer' from CPU to GPU will simply be a pointer exchange. In fact, Fusion is doing away with the concept of a GPU being a discrete device - the GPU that is presented to the OS is really only a virtual device wrapping a bunch of the vector processing units.
I really haven't had much use for the Android marketplace, but I did decide I wanted to check out what Angry Birds was all about. Going into the marketplace and searching for "Angry Birds" returned an absolute mess of results. As a user, I shouldn't have to weed through all of the crap to find a well-known application, especially since Google is first and foremost a search engine company.
..and, as a bonus, you won't have to buy a halloween costume this year.
If I had to guess, this would be a multi-point approach solution. The service would feed content to XBox, Media Center PC, and a set top box.
Keep in mind that for many users (my parents being an example), an 'appliance' is what they are looking for, and the XBox and Media Center PC don't fit that criteria. I don't want to deal with the XBox UI just to watch a TV program. The XBox also does not have digital cable decoding, etc. Media Center PC requires that a geek live in the house, to keep the damn thing patched etc. I personally use a Media Center box at home, but wish I had something more basic and closer to fixed function.
A couple of observations:
The biggest competitor to Microsoft in the areas they have traditionally been successful is....Microsoft. Windows XP has been "good enough" for a large audience, and 10 years from now, Windows 7 will be "more than good enough" compared to whatever version of Windows will be shipping then. Same with Office. Most of the other applications are either given away for free, or are not nearly as profitable.
The reason Microsoft is so interested in "the cloud", is that these are services they put reoccurring charges on. Xbox live memberships, Zune pass memberships, streaming media (music, movies, etc), are all services they can charge for until the end of time.
Microsoft is still hurting from the loss of market share for search (Google) and Music (iTunes). Of course they are interested in streaming video, and so is Apple and Google. Whichever one creates the market place that obtains the most users is in place to have a cash cow that can be milked for a very long time.
As a Microsoft employee and stock holder, I do want them to go after this market, because there is a lot at stake here. Unless Microsoft has a strong strategy, Apple will likely be the victor within the next year or two.
I guess I am not the only one that is thinking that "Free Internet" SSID is a perfect vector for a MIM attack. Has anyone heard of any cases where it has already been exploited?
Ever been to Defcon?
If you refuse to show the child porn on your computer (and there is no child porn there) then throwing you in jail for not showing the files is equivalent to throwing your ass in jail for not providing whereabouts of a body of a person, when you have no idea about the body and you are innocent of any crime there.
Bad analogy. This would be like preventing the police from searching your house, where they believe the body to be. The computer is a container of the information, much like a safe would be for physical documents. The police are asking to look inside the container for the evidence, not asking you where the evidence is.
Demanding a diamond encrusted pony is a bit different than demanding that 'society' not take your money away.
I was under the impression that there is no standard for encoding a video stream, and that the standard is in the decoding of the stream.
It makes it unlikely that this comparison of codecs shows the full potential of one standard over another - and I would be wary of drawing any conclusions.
This is not an indication that it's OK. It's an indication that there's something rotten at the core.
And do you know what is also rotten at the core? The consumer. Before you mod me flamebait, consider this: The consumer drives the price down by buying the cheapest computer available. This causes a race to the bottom, where businesses cut as much cost as possible. You think that Dell is greedy, but many of the consumers are not contributing to a win-win deal. You pay for what you get, which is why Apple is generally a better brand.
So for fucks sake, quit putting all of the blame on the corporation. The consumers also play a role in scenario - and have contributed to the situation.
Isn't this the same thing as the Microsoft Terminal Services RemoteApp application?
I don't consider Microsoft to be a small defenseless kitten.
Anyway, I am not sure how effective a kitten is at bludgeoning.
Or maybe it downloaded an update from Windows Update, which wasn't tested for space probes.
The person with the most keys is generally the janitor. The CEO doesn't have a keyring nearly as big.
Actually, this is inaccurate. Satan wasn’t really the creator of IE.
This is how it went down: After walking the Earth, Satan met up with the Creator (of IE). The Creator mentioned his loyal servants whose job it was to maintain IE, and how they praised the name of the Creator.
Satan then pointed out that these folks with jobs only praised the Creator because they were not in misery; and thus Satan bet the Creator (of IE) that if the spoils were taken away, then these folks would cease to sing praise. The Creator accepted the bet, and implemented much pain into IE.
After years of pain, it is hard to remember if or when IE was ever good. However, those with faith believe that at some point IE will be restored to a less torturous product.
In summary, it wasn’t the product of Satan, but Satan did have influence.
Reality is people are too stupid to do this because the do not understand their rights, the informed minority is outnumbered by the ignorant majority. In theory the free market is supposed to work this way, in practice it absolutely does not as we've seen again and again.
Interesting that you consider those of us in the majority 'ignorant'. The Halo/xBox environment is similar to Apple, where by participating, users have joined into a more locked down environment. It is a mistake to assume that the "ignorant majority" don't understand the benefits of a regulated experience.
Just because the model does not meet your needs, does not mean this is true for everyone.
I have had plenty of times shocking myself when playing with what I thought were safe devices. Here are a couple that caught me off guard:
1: Capacitors. Even though you are unplugged and powered off, a capacitor can be holding a surprise for you. The one that I learned on was built into a camera flash: So even though the device was powered by a couple of AA batteries (removed), sitting in wait was a capacitor with several thousand volts. I recall getting up off the floor wondering WTF just happened.
2: Relays. These devices use an electromagnet to move a metal reed, which closes (or opens) the connection for another circuit. Be aware that when a magnetic field collapses, electricty is 'made'. So even though I was driving the electromagnet with 9v, the shock I got when the field collapsed was likely several hundred volts. This wouldn't have been quite the problem, if I weren't using the relay to drive the relay (the switched circuit was closed in the unpowered position, and open when powered) - which creates an oscillator. This means that I shocked myself quite a few times before I could get the breadboard off of my hand.
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Another way to phrase what parent is saying is that the database is a shared resource. It only takes *one* poorly written ad-hoc query to screw performance for everyone interfacing with the database.
Another difficulty is to database schema changes. Want to change to a partitoned table? Can't really do that when the DBA has no idea how all of the client apps are interfacing with the tables using dynamic SQL. I have seen too many situations where the end result was that the DBA made the change, and waited until applications started breaking to figure out how people were (incorrectly) using the schema.
Additionally, the memory manager will write active paged memory to disk without paging the data out of RAM. This is done so that when you hibernate your machine, much of what is in memory is already written to the disk. The machine can therefore hibernate much more quickly than if it had to write the full active working set of RAM to disk.
So, which glass has the iocane powder?
My group does onsite visits to customer facilities. Often these locations do not have a network for us to tether into - which is why the MiFi is perfect for us. The group (under 5) can all connect out on my MiFi device and get very reasonable speed network access. This allows us all to stay on email, or RAS back into our corporate network.
Note: We only need one device for this - and not an telco account for every user.