Every company I've worked for forced us to change passwords regardless of complexity. So I, and probably everyone else, used a simple phrase with a number to increment. I would have liked it if I picked a long, complex, hard to crack password that I'd be rewarded with a longer period before requiring to change my password. Would this make sense in practice?
Tricky. Since passwords are stored as one-way hashes, complexity can only be evaluated when the password is changed. Thus, a indicator of the complexity would have to be stored. If the password store were compromised, this data could be used to selectively attack the weakest passwords.
I have a 10 year old Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with a "Ready for Vista" sticker on it running Windows 10 that says otherwise.
Indeed. It says that you did not read or did not understand the summary. This article is about mobile devices (phones and tablets) not desktop computers. Hence, the Android example and calling them "devices" instead of "computers".
Running modern OS's on old desktop hardware is not all that difficult as long as the components are popular and well supported (more obscure components may not have drivers available for modern OS's).
However, the same can not be said for mobile devices. Even a three year old phone may be officially unsupported and by five years it is pretty much guaranteed. By "unsupported", I mean that neither the preview or the current release will run. You can sometimes find hacked up versions that run on older hardware at the expense of stability, performance, and functionality. This is largely due to lack of driver support in the newer kernels for the components baked into the older devices. There is no option to chose your components wisely.
The barge is placed down range so that the booster does not have to reverse course to return near the launch site. It just continues on a ballistic path, only firing up the engines to allow a soft landing.
No. This is what virtual machines are for. Or an older box you might have laying around.
Unfortunately, the older boxes don't generally run the preview or even the current stable. Short of physical damage that is generally why they are not primary devices any more.
Of course, there are people who buy a new phone every six months. I think they are crazy but they might be the kind of crazy who install preview versions of mobile operating systems.
Kickstarter has been around since 2009. When is a company no longer considered a "startup"?
Generally, that mile stone is the IPO. Dividends begin some years after that, if ever. Since they are paying a dividend now, it suggests that Kickstarter does not intend to ever go public. Uber seems to be following a similar plan. I guess they don't want the scrutiny and regulation that comes with being a publicly traded company. I can understand that but on the other hand, some of those regulations are there for good reason.
Because one share is not much (too little to sell, really) I think many costumers will end up buying more shares, especially since they already have a connection to the company (own what you know). This might be enough to pump up the stock price beyond what T-mobile could have managed by just buying and retiring shares.
The day that E-bikes take over in the US is the day *after* the bicycle infrastructure get so good, the distances so short, and the attitudes so much improved that everyone would be riding bicycles. This is unlikely. And if, somehow it did happen, it would actually be kind of sad. All that work to overhaul transportation, and Americans would still rather sit on their ass and coast rather than pedal.
It could be that media that women's interests are wider, on average, or that an equivalent zone for men to the 'chick flic' hasn't been discovered. I don't know.
The male equivalent of the chic flic is the "action" film. But were talking about TV. Action is expensive to film thus we see less of it on the lower budget small screen.
These devices have not redefined the way we phone, nor have they blown us away with unprecedented speeds, or wowed us with extraordinary battery life. Each of these new phones is merely a marginal improvement over last year's model.
Why is no one saying the same things about PCs?
Because it is no longer news. PC's have been stagnant to declining for some years now. In the 80's and 90's PC's were the engine behind the electronics industry. That started to peter out in the 2000's so everyone hitched a ride on the mobile boom. Now, smart phones are cresting. Without rapid advancement consumers will delay purchasing new phones. Volume and margins will fall. Now attention is being turned to wearables and Internet of Things. There is still a great deal of uncertainty of either trend is big enough to keep the engine going. There is a lot of consolidation going on in the chip business right now.
Color and sound were considered toys for a long time. You only needed them to play games. Real work was done on Green/Amber Screens
Affordable colour screens were toys for a long time. They lacked the resolution to display large amounts of data (mostly text) clearly. They were sharp enough for games but nearly useless for doing work.
In the same era, machines that had good sound lacked significant business applications and/or the ability to display 80 columns.
Sound never really justified its existence on work machines. It just became cheap enough that it did not make any sense to leave it out on machines that people did not expect to play on.
It should not matter if the employee is adaptable.
Doesn't matter if the prospective employee is adaptable if the employer does not believe or does not care (because adapting requires time, access to relevant tools, and often training)
A friend loaned me a DVD of an old Italian Spaghetti Western, that was in Italian with English subtitles.
This is a film you can't get on DVD or any other way.
So, if you can't get it on DVD, where did your DVD come from?
Bear in mind that YouTube is available internationally so, even if you can't buy a DVD locally, that doesn't mean that there is not somewhere that the DVD is available and there your Youtube video does compete with the rights holder's product.
We used to pay people to do things we do now: pump our gas, do our laundry, etc. Not only do we work our job, we do jobs other people used to.
Who is "we"? Servants are only practical for everyday tasks if there are people far enough below you on the economic strata that you can afford to pay them. If, in that earlier time, *you* were the servant then you did not have any servants for yourself. India is like this today. People at the level of the typical Slashdot poster do have people do their nuisance tasks. That is because there are a great number of very poor people willing to accept the assignment for little pay.
Google is still using PageRank, they just aren't showing the numbers to the public. This makes objectively measuring the effectiveness of SEO spam difficult. However, the effect on search is unchanged so I don't see the spamming going away any time soon. Email spam has never had useful measurements of its effectiveness and what there is mostly says it doesn't work. Yet it persists.
Nothing in the article talks about what the resulting aperture is. To get a reasonable exposure time, you need to capture adequate light. Cameras in cell phones already suffer because their lenses are too small to capture enough light. Is this scheme worse because it lets less light through or better because a larger "lens" is practical?
CMOS technology, is static meaning that there is no current flow through a gate when it is on or off. Current only flows while the transistor is transitioning states.
That's the idea but it has never quite worked that way. There is always a small current flow from vdd to ground even when the gate is "off". At smaller geometries, this leakage becomes not just significant but can be the majority of the power drain. Thus, having lots of cores ready but not active does not help. They still suck power. Finfets help a great deal but only for a while and at 14nm and below the problem is coming back. The work around is to actually turn off the power to inactive regions. This works but shutting down and restarting units is complicated and time consuming, making it more difficult to respond to transient demands.
I don't read Dutch, but if you view the linked video, it's clear that whatever kind of eagle they're using, it's not a bald eagle.
I don't read Dutch either but the second eagle is clearly a Bald Eagle. The first eagle (shown in action) appears to be a juvenile Bald Eagle. They don't get the characteristic white heads until maturity.
I don't know why they are using bald eagles either but perhaps it is precisely because they are non-native. The Netherlands probably has laws restricting possession and handling of native raptors, including Golden eagles. These laws might not apply to imports, like the Bald Eagle.
And not from SoftIron. "Available today from SoftIron" actually means available to somebody soon, maybe. But you won't find a listing anywhere and they won't even respond to queries from individuals.
Strictly speaking, patents are not a problem for making software open. Open source reveals patented techniques but then, so does the patent application. The competition can see what you are doing but it doesn't matter because they can't use the information.
Which means it is not an excuse for binary blobs. If it source was open, it still would not be free because of the patents but that's another problem.
Binary blobs serve to protect trade secrets including elements are could be but are not yet patented.
The real problem is that hardware development world is insanely protective of IP. So much productivity is lost is due to stifled communication to protect IP that isn't all that unique or useful.
The problem is not that salaries are now open. The problem is that they were secret for so long allowing various forms of corruption to grow and fester. It is always awkward when previously hidden rubbish is exposed to the light. The solution, though, is not to go back to hiding salaries but to keep them open. That way existing inequities get cleaned up and new ones are not allowed to sprout.
Mostly from what I've seen, custom hardware is being replaced by off the shelf components with customizable software.
Yes, I have this trend over the last ten years and accentuated over the last five years.
The 1990's was the golden age of the IC startup. Many many companies were designing their own chips as a result of new tools and the new decoupling of design and manufacturing.
But as we moved through the 2000's, the cost of a developing a new chip rose astronomically. This is due to a combination of the need to make much more complex chips to be competitive and greatly increasing cost to gear up manufacturing at smaller geometries.
Thus chip startups needed a lot more money. This was a hard sell because it became clear in the mid 2000's that overall venture investment in chip startups produced negative returns.
It got worse in more recent times. Quick turn Internet startups could turn an idea into revenue very quickly with small teams and negligible investment in infrastructure. This is very attractive to investors. Why spend tens of millions and wait years for a hardware idea to bring in revenue when software could turn around so much faster and cheaper?
Thus, the way to survive in hardware to do as little hardware as possible (no chips!) and push the secret sauce to software, ideally not even in your device.
Meanwhile, the established companies are no longer pressured by startups to do many new designs. Further they have to front the enormous cost when they do make new chips.
Instead of expansion, we are seeing a wave of consolidation in the chip world.
If the GGP can survive the total destruction of Alderon, I think the galactic economy can survive the loss of two Death Stars. Then there is also the clone wars. Frankly, it requires a bit of suspension of disbelief to think that the Galactic economy can function at all since the Galaxy seems to be perpetually at war.
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Every company I've worked for forced us to change passwords regardless of complexity. So I, and probably everyone else, used a simple phrase with a number to increment. I would have liked it if I picked a long, complex, hard to crack password that I'd be rewarded with a longer period before requiring to change my password. Would this make sense in practice?
Tricky. Since passwords are stored as one-way hashes, complexity can only be evaluated when the password is changed. Thus, a indicator of the complexity would have to be stored. If the password store were compromised, this data could be used to selectively attack the weakest passwords.
I have a 10 year old Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with a "Ready for Vista" sticker on it running Windows 10 that says otherwise.
Indeed. It says that you did not read or did not understand the summary. This article is about mobile devices (phones and tablets) not desktop computers. Hence, the Android example and calling them "devices" instead of "computers".
Running modern OS's on old desktop hardware is not all that difficult as long as the components are popular and well supported (more obscure components may not have drivers available for modern OS's).
However, the same can not be said for mobile devices. Even a three year old phone may be officially unsupported and by five years it is pretty much guaranteed. By "unsupported", I mean that neither the preview or the current release will run. You can sometimes find hacked up versions that run on older hardware at the expense of stability, performance, and functionality. This is largely due to lack of driver support in the newer kernels for the components baked into the older devices. There is no option to chose your components wisely.
The barge is placed down range so that the booster does not have to reverse course to return near the launch site. It just continues on a ballistic path, only firing up the engines to allow a soft landing.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4...
No. This is what virtual machines are for. Or an older box you might have laying around.
Unfortunately, the older boxes don't generally run the preview or even the current stable. Short of physical damage that is generally why they are not primary devices any more.
Of course, there are people who buy a new phone every six months. I think they are crazy but they might be the kind of crazy who install preview versions of mobile operating systems.
Kickstarter has been around since 2009. When is a company no longer considered a "startup"?
Generally, that mile stone is the IPO. Dividends begin some years after that, if ever. Since they are paying a dividend now, it suggests that Kickstarter does not intend to ever go public. Uber seems to be following a similar plan. I guess they don't want the scrutiny and regulation that comes with being a publicly traded company. I can understand that but on the other hand, some of those regulations are there for good reason.
Because one share is not much (too little to sell, really) I think many costumers will end up buying more shares, especially since they already have a connection to the company (own what you know). This might be enough to pump up the stock price beyond what T-mobile could have managed by just buying and retiring shares.
And not cars.
The day that E-bikes take over in the US is the day *after* the bicycle infrastructure get so good, the distances so short, and the attitudes so much improved that everyone would be riding bicycles. This is unlikely. And if, somehow it did happen, it would actually be kind of sad. All that work to overhaul transportation, and Americans would still rather sit on their ass and coast rather than pedal.
How about the Samsung S3 mini?
It is not a modern small phone. It is mostly just an old phone.
The screen resolution is several generations behind flag ship (800x480).
The OS is stuck at 4.x, two generations below current.
It could be that media that women's interests are wider, on average, or that an equivalent zone for men to the 'chick flic' hasn't been discovered. I don't know.
The male equivalent of the chic flic is the "action" film. But were talking about TV. Action is expensive to film thus we see less of it on the lower budget small screen.
These devices have not redefined the way we phone, nor have they blown us away with unprecedented speeds, or wowed us with extraordinary battery life. Each of these new phones is merely a marginal improvement over last year's model.
Why is no one saying the same things about PCs?
Because it is no longer news. PC's have been stagnant to declining for some years now. In the 80's and 90's PC's were the engine behind the electronics industry. That started to peter out in the 2000's so everyone hitched a ride on the mobile boom. Now, smart phones are cresting. Without rapid advancement consumers will delay purchasing new phones. Volume and margins will fall. Now attention is being turned to wearables and Internet of Things. There is still a great deal of uncertainty of either trend is big enough to keep the engine going. There is a lot of consolidation going on in the chip business right now.
Color and sound were considered toys for a long time. You only needed them to play games. Real work was done on Green/Amber Screens
Affordable colour screens were toys for a long time. They lacked the resolution to display large amounts of data (mostly text) clearly. They were sharp enough for games but nearly useless for doing work.
In the same era, machines that had good sound lacked significant business applications and/or the ability to display 80 columns.
Sound never really justified its existence on work machines. It just became cheap enough that it did not make any sense to leave it out on machines that people did not expect to play on.
It should not matter if the employee is adaptable.
Doesn't matter if the prospective employee is adaptable if the employer does not believe or does not care (because adapting requires time, access to relevant tools, and often training)
A friend loaned me a DVD of an old Italian Spaghetti Western, that was in Italian with English subtitles.
This is a film you can't get on DVD or any other way.
So, if you can't get it on DVD, where did your DVD come from?
Bear in mind that YouTube is available internationally so, even if you can't buy a DVD locally, that doesn't mean that there is not somewhere that the DVD is available and there your Youtube video does compete with the rights holder's product.
We used to pay people to do things we do now: pump our gas, do our laundry, etc. Not only do we work our job, we do jobs other people used to.
Who is "we"? Servants are only practical for everyday tasks if there are people far enough below you on the economic strata that you can afford to pay them. If, in that earlier time, *you* were the servant then you did not have any servants for yourself. India is like this today. People at the level of the typical Slashdot poster do have people do their nuisance tasks. That is because there are a great number of very poor people willing to accept the assignment for little pay.
Google is still using PageRank, they just aren't showing the numbers to the public. This makes objectively measuring the effectiveness of SEO spam difficult. However, the effect on search is unchanged so I don't see the spamming going away any time soon. Email spam has never had useful measurements of its effectiveness and what there is mostly says it doesn't work. Yet it persists.
Nothing in the article talks about what the resulting aperture is. To get a reasonable exposure time, you need to capture adequate light. Cameras in cell phones already suffer because their lenses are too small to capture enough light. Is this scheme worse because it lets less light through or better because a larger "lens" is practical?
CMOS technology, is static meaning that there is no current flow through a gate when it is on or off. Current only flows while the transistor is transitioning states.
That's the idea but it has never quite worked that way. There is always a small current flow from vdd to ground even when the gate is "off". At smaller geometries, this leakage becomes not just significant but can be the majority of the power drain. Thus, having lots of cores ready but not active does not help. They still suck power. Finfets help a great deal but only for a while and at 14nm and below the problem is coming back. The work around is to actually turn off the power to inactive regions. This works but shutting down and restarting units is complicated and time consuming, making it more difficult to respond to transient demands.
I don't read Dutch, but if you view the linked video, it's clear that whatever kind of eagle they're using, it's not a bald eagle.
I don't read Dutch either but the second eagle is clearly a Bald Eagle. The first eagle (shown in action) appears to be a juvenile Bald Eagle. They don't get the characteristic white heads until maturity.
I don't know why they are using bald eagles either but perhaps it is precisely because they are non-native. The Netherlands probably has laws restricting possession and handling of native raptors, including Golden eagles. These laws might not apply to imports, like the Bald Eagle.
And not from SoftIron. "Available today from SoftIron" actually means available to somebody soon, maybe. But you won't find a listing anywhere and they won't even respond to queries from individuals.
Strictly speaking, patents are not a problem for making software open. Open source reveals patented techniques but then, so does the patent application. The competition can see what you are doing but it doesn't matter because they can't use the information.
Which means it is not an excuse for binary blobs. If it source was open, it still would not be free because of the patents but that's another problem.
Binary blobs serve to protect trade secrets including elements are could be but are not yet patented.
The real problem is that hardware development world is insanely protective of IP. So much productivity is lost is due to stifled communication to protect IP that isn't all that unique or useful.
The problem is not that salaries are now open. The problem is that they were secret for so long allowing various forms of corruption to grow and fester. It is always awkward when previously hidden rubbish is exposed to the light. The solution, though, is not to go back to hiding salaries but to keep them open. That way existing inequities get cleaned up and new ones are not allowed to sprout.
They list 10 minutes of Force use by Leia in the 6 movies, perhaps that is what they are referring to?
I was wondering what Force Leia used in those moves, as I don't remember her using the force in a visible way.
In ROTJ after the Death Start blows up:
Han: I hope Luke wasn't on board. (aprox)
Leia: He wasn't. I felt it!
Mostly from what I've seen, custom hardware is being replaced by off the shelf components with customizable software.
Yes, I have this trend over the last ten years and accentuated over the last five years.
The 1990's was the golden age of the IC startup. Many many companies were designing their own chips as a result of new tools and the new decoupling of design and manufacturing.
But as we moved through the 2000's, the cost of a developing a new chip rose astronomically. This is due to a combination of the need to make much more complex chips to be competitive and greatly increasing cost to gear up manufacturing at smaller geometries.
Thus chip startups needed a lot more money. This was a hard sell because it became clear in the mid 2000's that overall venture investment in chip startups produced negative returns.
It got worse in more recent times. Quick turn Internet startups could turn an idea into revenue very quickly with small teams and negligible investment in infrastructure. This is very attractive to investors. Why spend tens of millions and wait years for a hardware idea to bring in revenue when software could turn around so much faster and cheaper?
Thus, the way to survive in hardware to do as little hardware as possible (no chips!) and push the secret sauce to software, ideally not even in your device.
Meanwhile, the established companies are no longer pressured by startups to do many new designs. Further they have to front the enormous cost when they do make new chips.
Instead of expansion, we are seeing a wave of consolidation in the chip world.
If the GGP can survive the total destruction of Alderon, I think the galactic economy can survive the loss of two Death Stars. Then there is also the clone wars. Frankly, it requires a bit of suspension of disbelief to think that the Galactic economy can function at all since the Galaxy seems to be perpetually at war.
But if all the rich sociopaths go live on Mars, then who will be left to start the nuclear wars or perpetuate global warming here?
Their minions