I already addressed that, what you WILL see in ARM is the exact same thing that is happening to X86 now and WILL happen in 3 years, probably less. Nvidia is already up to 5 cores, Samsung has a 6 core in testing right now, and nobody has been able to figure out how to come up with a language or framework that can scale most jobs over multicores smoothly.
I agree with you on the smartphones, but I don't know if this will directly transfer to ARM as a whole. Every day, there are more and more devices running ARM processors. Heck, I just bought a Nest thermostat a month ago, and I'm sure it has an ARM processor inside it. If people want a computer in their oven, (not sure who wants this, but apparently someone is building it), then you're going to see more and more devices with ARM processors.
Companies want to keep XP? Fine pay for a service contract, if enough of you buy contracts we'll extend it for as long as you're willing to pay...BAM!
Microsoft already does this.
Make an app based on the MSFT cloud that lets a user at work access his home PC or vice versa using 2 part auth based around flash sticks so they can carry a "key to their PCs" in their pocket next to the car keys..BAM!
Microsoft already does/did this. (Windows Home Server).
I think the only good idea is the app store one. I'm sure it would be nice to have for old versions of Windows, but I don't see Microsoft doing it. I'm sure they wont want to spend money/time on getting technology to work on an OS they want people to migrate away from. I'd rather see them make a version of Windows 8 that looked and felt like Windows 7. I'm sure they'd make more money that way.
How do you suppose that you download a blu ray sized game? I've got an 18mbit internet connection, and downloading a 25+ GB game would take quite some time. Lets also not forget that a lot of people have caps on the amount they can download. Download 4 games in a month, and your ISP may very well cut you off. Also, you would need a large hard drive to hold all of your games. I'd imagine 1TB would probably be necessary for a lot of gamers. I own ~20 PS3 games, and I'm not exactly hard core. I've just had the console since it was released, and I get ~5 games each year. (Side rant, I typically buy the hot games a year after they come out. Preferably when they release the next sequel. It's amazing how many games I've bought for $19.99 that were released a year before for $59.99. Delayed gratification really saves a lot of money. I suppose if I was playing more online gaming, I might be more inclined to get the hottest games).
I see digital downloads as the future of gaming, but I don't think that Sony or Microsoft will make it the ONLY method of getting games until the majority of people buy their games digital by choice.
You missed the part about RAW. I don't want to use my fingerprints to unlock a password database. I want my fingerprint to BE my password. Or at the very least, I'd like my fingerprint to be my "What I have" for 2-factor authentication. I'm a big fan of fingerprint + password authentication. But since I use my fingerprint, I can cut the password down to a normal 10-12 character length of medium complexity. The great thing about fingerprints is that you have 10 of them. I know with my laptop, I've registered just two. That gives me a margin of error for damaging my finger, and it means that if an attacker did have a way to fake the scanner, he has a 1 in 5 chance of picking the right finger to spoof.
Your phone would be protected with a password silly! Oh wait, this seems like it would add complexity, and probably add passwords. It would also require all sites to majorly overhaul their authentication protocols. I'm guessing this is about as likely as happening as all websites accepting a fingerprint in raw form as a password.
Yeah, and if I wanted an out of date phone, I'd get it.:-) I use my phone to much for non-gaming to get a gaming phone. I want something that does well at both. I'd even pay for a separate controller for my phone, but it would have to be compatible without rooting.
My guess is that they are going after people who want to run emulators for old game systems. I'd pay good money for a hand held SNES emulator. I know there are Android apps to do it, but I can't imagine how you would handle the controls.
Very few companies I have been part of allow full access to VPN users. They typically follow a least privileged approach. In other words, you get exactly what you ask for and nothing else. If you need to RDP to Box A, you wont be able to RDP to Box B. You could ask to RDP to subnet 10.45.24.*, but you'll need to justify it. It's a bit of a PITA to setup the access, but the end result is a lot more secure.
My brother in law is a contractor. He was telling me how it's pretty often that he gets work from other contractors, and then he subcontracts the work out to people who some times work with him. It's no surprise that it costs people so much money to have work done when 3 people have to make a profit on it.
Define "Assault Rifle". I'll quote wikipedia here:
The use of the term "assault weapon" is also highly controversial, as critics assert that the term is a media invention,[7] or a term that is intended to cause confusion among the public by intentionally misleading the public to believe that assault weapons (as defined in legislation) are full automatic firearms when they are not.[8]
Assault weapon refers primarily (but not exclusively) to semi-automatic firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge that possess the cosmetic features of a military fully-automatic assault rifle
The simple truth for most people is that the difference between a hunting rifle and an "Assault Weapon" is that an assault weapon looks scary. Actual functionality doesn't really mater.
“There weren’t that many deaths in the first place,” says president of the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia Bob Green, cautioning against taking the causal link many draw between the NFA and a steep drop in gun deaths at face value. “Gun deaths were declining for the past 30 years before they brought the laws in.”
Though many point to declining gun violence statistics as further evidence of the effectiveness of Australia's 1996 law, gun supporters also use it to support their case: In 1979, there were 689 gun-related deaths in Australia, or about 4.71 per 100,000 Australians. That rate began to decline in the 1980s and reached 2.82 per 100,000 Australians in 1996, with 516 killed that year. The number of deaths by firearms and the rate per people continued to drop until 2010, when 231 died and the rate was 1.04 per 100,000 people, according to the University of Sydney’s GunPolicy.org.
Since you linked to it, I figured I'd actually read the article. This seems to be a simple Correlation != Causation argument. While no one doubts that stricter gun controls may stop some amount of criminal acts from happening, the effectiveness is grossly over stated.
What percent of the time were the guns owned by the person using them in the shootings? I don't know the answer. Using my unscientific method of "memory", I believe most of the guns were acquired from relatives. Either they stole them from parents/uncle, or were given them by parents. I don't understand how having a 7 round magazine will change that. Will having a 7 round magazine help anything? Maybe. But if you had passed a law requiring gun owners to use approved gun storage containers, and you made people accessories to crimes if their guns were stolen and not properly stored, I think it would do more to solve the school shootings issue than any real legislation that has been brought up. I also know that you would have a lot more support from the gun owners of America.
Honestly, I'm not a big hunter. I like going camping in the woods with friends, and if I ever get a deer, It'll be a bonus. If I was seriously in to it, I'd need to spend a lot more money on a high powered rifle, and more importantly, I'd need to find a better location to hunt. I originally bought the AK-47 because most hunting rifles were expensive. The AK-47 I first bought was under $250 in 2001. On a college student's budget, I couldn't afford to buy a $500 hunting rifle.
I've kept the AK-47 for it's simplicity, reliability, and versatility. Having said that, I keep it locked up tight, (trigger lock on the gun and inside a securely locked enclosure). I am firmly in favor of legislating gun storage requirements. I think that the owners of guns should be held liable in court for others actions if their guns weren't properly stored and were used in a crime.
As an owner of a semi-automatic AK-47, I can assure you that I have taken my AK-47 hunting on several occasions. Would I have been better off with a more traditional hunting rifle? Maybe. But I don't like unitaskers. I like having multifunctional devices. By the way, my AK-47 has a scope and it was outfitted with 5 round mags (the legal max size in Michigan).
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I really wish Slashdot would disallow headlines asked as a question. Ask slashdot included. :-)
I already addressed that, what you WILL see in ARM is the exact same thing that is happening to X86 now and WILL happen in 3 years, probably less. Nvidia is already up to 5 cores, Samsung has a 6 core in testing right now, and nobody has been able to figure out how to come up with a language or framework that can scale most jobs over multicores smoothly.
I agree with you on the smartphones, but I don't know if this will directly transfer to ARM as a whole. Every day, there are more and more devices running ARM processors. Heck, I just bought a Nest thermostat a month ago, and I'm sure it has an ARM processor inside it. If people want a computer in their oven, (not sure who wants this, but apparently someone is building it), then you're going to see more and more devices with ARM processors.
Companies want to keep XP? Fine pay for a service contract, if enough of you buy contracts we'll extend it for as long as you're willing to pay...BAM!
Microsoft already does this.
Make an app based on the MSFT cloud that lets a user at work access his home PC or vice versa using 2 part auth based around flash sticks so they can carry a "key to their PCs" in their pocket next to the car keys..BAM!
Microsoft already does/did this. (Windows Home Server).
I think the only good idea is the app store one. I'm sure it would be nice to have for old versions of Windows, but I don't see Microsoft doing it. I'm sure they wont want to spend money/time on getting technology to work on an OS they want people to migrate away from. I'd rather see them make a version of Windows 8 that looked and felt like Windows 7. I'm sure they'd make more money that way.
How do you suppose that you download a blu ray sized game? I've got an 18mbit internet connection, and downloading a 25+ GB game would take quite some time. Lets also not forget that a lot of people have caps on the amount they can download. Download 4 games in a month, and your ISP may very well cut you off. Also, you would need a large hard drive to hold all of your games. I'd imagine 1TB would probably be necessary for a lot of gamers. I own ~20 PS3 games, and I'm not exactly hard core. I've just had the console since it was released, and I get ~5 games each year. (Side rant, I typically buy the hot games a year after they come out. Preferably when they release the next sequel. It's amazing how many games I've bought for $19.99 that were released a year before for $59.99. Delayed gratification really saves a lot of money. I suppose if I was playing more online gaming, I might be more inclined to get the hottest games).
I see digital downloads as the future of gaming, but I don't think that Sony or Microsoft will make it the ONLY method of getting games until the majority of people buy their games digital by choice.
That's why you use two factor authentication. Even if the password was 123456, that mixed with fingerprint makes it very hard to crack.
You missed the part about RAW. I don't want to use my fingerprints to unlock a password database. I want my fingerprint to BE my password. Or at the very least, I'd like my fingerprint to be my "What I have" for 2-factor authentication. I'm a big fan of fingerprint + password authentication. But since I use my fingerprint, I can cut the password down to a normal 10-12 character length of medium complexity. The great thing about fingerprints is that you have 10 of them. I know with my laptop, I've registered just two. That gives me a margin of error for damaging my finger, and it means that if an attacker did have a way to fake the scanner, he has a 1 in 5 chance of picking the right finger to spoof.
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Your phone would be protected with a password silly! Oh wait, this seems like it would add complexity, and probably add passwords. It would also require all sites to majorly overhaul their authentication protocols. I'm guessing this is about as likely as happening as all websites accepting a fingerprint in raw form as a password.
Yeah, and if I wanted an out of date phone, I'd get it. :-) I use my phone to much for non-gaming to get a gaming phone. I want something that does well at both. I'd even pay for a separate controller for my phone, but it would have to be compatible without rooting.
My guess is that they are going after people who want to run emulators for old game systems. I'd pay good money for a hand held SNES emulator. I know there are Android apps to do it, but I can't imagine how you would handle the controls.
Very few companies I have been part of allow full access to VPN users. They typically follow a least privileged approach. In other words, you get exactly what you ask for and nothing else. If you need to RDP to Box A, you wont be able to RDP to Box B. You could ask to RDP to subnet 10.45.24.*, but you'll need to justify it. It's a bit of a PITA to setup the access, but the end result is a lot more secure.
Sorry, I forgot to mention he is a construction contractor.
My brother in law is a contractor. He was telling me how it's pretty often that he gets work from other contractors, and then he subcontracts the work out to people who some times work with him. It's no surprise that it costs people so much money to have work done when 3 people have to make a profit on it.
There are "Soft" tokens. Basically an app on your computer or smartphone.
Why not just ban cars? It wont stop drunk people from killing themselves on bicycles, but it will save so many lives of innocent people.
The use of the term "assault weapon" is also highly controversial, as critics assert that the term is a media invention,[7] or a term that is intended to cause confusion among the public by intentionally misleading the public to believe that assault weapons (as defined in legislation) are full automatic firearms when they are not.[8] Assault weapon refers primarily (but not exclusively) to semi-automatic firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge that possess the cosmetic features of a military fully-automatic assault rifle
The simple truth for most people is that the difference between a hunting rifle and an "Assault Weapon" is that an assault weapon looks scary. Actual functionality doesn't really mater.
“There weren’t that many deaths in the first place,” says president of the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia Bob Green, cautioning against taking the causal link many draw between the NFA and a steep drop in gun deaths at face value. “Gun deaths were declining for the past 30 years before they brought the laws in.”
Though many point to declining gun violence statistics as further evidence of the effectiveness of Australia's 1996 law, gun supporters also use it to support their case: In 1979, there were 689 gun-related deaths in Australia, or about 4.71 per 100,000 Australians. That rate began to decline in the 1980s and reached 2.82 per 100,000 Australians in 1996, with 516 killed that year. The number of deaths by firearms and the rate per people continued to drop until 2010, when 231 died and the rate was 1.04 per 100,000 people, according to the University of Sydney’s GunPolicy.org.
Since you linked to it, I figured I'd actually read the article. This seems to be a simple Correlation != Causation argument. While no one doubts that stricter gun controls may stop some amount of criminal acts from happening, the effectiveness is grossly over stated.
If she didn't keep her AR-15 properly secured, she wasn't a responsible owner.
What percent of the time were the guns owned by the person using them in the shootings? I don't know the answer. Using my unscientific method of "memory", I believe most of the guns were acquired from relatives. Either they stole them from parents/uncle, or were given them by parents. I don't understand how having a 7 round magazine will change that. Will having a 7 round magazine help anything? Maybe. But if you had passed a law requiring gun owners to use approved gun storage containers, and you made people accessories to crimes if their guns were stolen and not properly stored, I think it would do more to solve the school shootings issue than any real legislation that has been brought up. I also know that you would have a lot more support from the gun owners of America.
I can tell you for a fact that it wouldn't involve guns...and I even own a so-called assault rifle, so accessibility is not an issue.
I highly doubt that possession of high capacity magazines will be banned. More likely the import or manufacturing of them will be made illegal.
Honestly, I'm not a big hunter. I like going camping in the woods with friends, and if I ever get a deer, It'll be a bonus. If I was seriously in to it, I'd need to spend a lot more money on a high powered rifle, and more importantly, I'd need to find a better location to hunt. I originally bought the AK-47 because most hunting rifles were expensive. The AK-47 I first bought was under $250 in 2001. On a college student's budget, I couldn't afford to buy a $500 hunting rifle.
I've kept the AK-47 for it's simplicity, reliability, and versatility. Having said that, I keep it locked up tight, (trigger lock on the gun and inside a securely locked enclosure). I am firmly in favor of legislating gun storage requirements. I think that the owners of guns should be held liable in court for others actions if their guns weren't properly stored and were used in a crime.
You either toddler-proof the entire world or you realize you're not going to stop a crazy person from doing stupid shit.
Obviously, you've seen senate bill #42221. I'm just not sure how I'm going to be able to get to work in my pedal car.
Nothing disgusting nor reprehensible about that statement, no sir.
You're right, because I was stating a fact. The morality of such an action wasn't brought up.
The bad guy is wearing the black hat. The good guy is wearing the white hat. Haven't you ever seen a western movie?
As an owner of a semi-automatic AK-47, I can assure you that I have taken my AK-47 hunting on several occasions. Would I have been better off with a more traditional hunting rifle? Maybe. But I don't like unitaskers. I like having multifunctional devices. By the way, my AK-47 has a scope and it was outfitted with 5 round mags (the legal max size in Michigan).