Your decision to move to a system that requires an independent power supply (batteries) is an invitation to Murphy to send his law to your house / place of work at the most inopportune moment.
Oh, and radiation. I'm sure it'll kill you too. Bluetooth will force you to visit your dentist too.
Plus what are you going to fight off the ninjas with if you don't have a mouse cord?
Think of this as a symbiotic relationship between the PC Host and the Somniloquy. The Torrent client will be modified so as to take advantage of this.
Torrents already are well positioned to take advantage of this because they are already diced into lots of little pieces. The computer goes to sleep and Somniloquy tries to download a memory-available appropriate chunk of the whole download. When this has been filled, the host turns on, the chunk is transferred to the larger disk, and another chunk is downloaded.
This really shouldn't impact your seeding capabilities that much due to random distribution (unless you've got a really low number of seeds and peers), and could be mitigated by retaining a certain percentage of pieces from the previous chunk when starting the next.
JavaScript can send the datapoints to the server as events without waiting for navigation events - think AJAX.
As for current real world implementation, I've only seen a bank site that uses a Flash app for login, where they measure the typing cadence for user name and password.
Having an unexpected cadence does not prevent log in, but does inform the server to later do additional identity validation, and you get prompted from a pre-configured pool of questions when you try to do things like send money to that guy who just needs to bribe the official, and then the wealth of a princess will be yours...
Millions of gigabits of internet data are handled every second by Linux based servers, worldwide, including a significant traffic for modern reworkings of the world's oldest profession.
I think F-Secure's unofficial stance is outlined best in their blog from a while back:
we're not recommending Foxit. We're not recommending Sumatra. Or PDF-Xchange, CoolPDF or eXPert PDF.
Instead, we recommend users to find their own Adobe Reader replacement.
This way we get more heterogeneous userbase, which is a good idea security-wise.
adblock plus doesn't block anything by default - you either need to define your own filters, or to subscribe to a published filterset.
Filtersets that block ads will block some of the JavaScript used to embed Google's text ads, if not to reclaim the space on the page, then to protect the privacy of the user, who is trying to download content from the web page, and not have their browsing activity tracked by Doubleclick.
It looks like this is getting less than 80% of the multitouch navigation events correct - rotating when the user intent is to zoom, zooming in when the user intends to zoom out, things like that. I hear MS Surface has the same issues.
Mebbe in a bit. But for now, it's something that looks cool.
Taking a quick look through the content at the government site, I must say I'm surprised. CC licensed content, links to external resources, a collection of international points of view. I'd be truly impressed if they'd managed to get all these folks in a room together.
Regardless, kudos to Canada for hitting the 21st century.
And I was doubly impressed to notice the absence of web beacons / analytics scripts.
While Kindle may not directly consume trees, I'd put my money on it having a total cradle to grave environmental cost greater than that of the average number of books that it replaces.
Remember, a book is pretty much biodegradable. Once created, it doesn't consume additional resources. It's manufacture doesn't have very high purity standards - I could theoretically make a book in my backyard and basement.
A Kindle, however, is pretty much non-biodegradable and likely contains hazardous materials. Once created, it continues to consume resources - electricity has to be made somewhere, and it's not only to keep the kindle alive, but the cost of maintaining the infrastructure to transmit the bits. Since it contains modern computer chips, at least part of its manufacture has stringent purity controls (5 nines plus) that are energy intensive.
So ya, killing trees? Sometimes better than the alternatives.
So that they can be re-installed without requiring the re-insertion of the DVD.
If they're using the same functionality as "Windows Features" in Vista, then when the feature is disabled, it's uninstalled and it cannot be executed. Imagine having the Windows ISO copied to the HDD and not having it mounted. If you want to install a component (like IIS), you don't go digging for the install disk - just check a checkbox and wait 10+ minutes.
And when it's uninstalled, the files remain on the HDD in the ISO equivalent, but do not remain in the 'accessible' folder structure, and are therefore no executable.
I'd expect that you'd be hard pressed to find iExplore.exe after unchecking the "IE8" checkbox in Win7.
But cancer has been figured out - don't smoke, drink less alcohol, and don't be obese. Also, try not to live in a developing country where your workplace has a higher chance of exposing you to known carcinogens - at least in developed countries you get significant settlements if this happens.
Seriously, if I were a medical researcher, faced with the blatant disregard for health endemic to the general populace, I'd be researching my belly button lint too.
We tried using a nightly build of Firefox 3.1 to see how performance might change in the future, but it locked up while running the Dromaeo tests so we opted to leave it for now. To be fair, the browser is still in beta, so it wouldn't really be a good test.
And also from the comments:
NO! The whole *POINT* of this is that people *DON'T* recompile Firefox - the just use the one from their distro.
Not to say that the Tux RADAR articles that I've read recently have impressed me in terms of technical diligence, but they have amused me, and motivated some heated discussion on topics that would otherwise get little attention. How many mouse-clicks are appropriate while installing an OS?
I mean, and back on topic, without someone pointing out that JS isn't as fast in the default build of Fx on Fedora, who's to get excited about a PGO'd build dropping?
At the heart of the device is a smartphone that uses an Internet connection to retrieve information.
Further analysis shows that the heart is actually a team of codemonkeys madly devoting all waking hours to understand the hundreds of different data formats needed to supply even the most basic integration.
Seriously tho, the main cost to developing this would be getting integrated with all the different potential data providers. Recognizing a physical bar code is easy. Looking up the current price at nearby retailers? More difficult.
Well, paper was good, as long as we're talking long fibers for paper. As we've moved to shorter fibers via more destructive pulping, the potential life of paper has been reduced.
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Your decision to move to a system that requires an independent power supply (batteries) is an invitation to Murphy to send his law to your house / place of work at the most inopportune moment.
Oh, and radiation. I'm sure it'll kill you too. Bluetooth will force you to visit your dentist too.
Plus what are you going to fight off the ninjas with if you don't have a mouse cord?
Holy surrealism, bantha!
You're thinking way "inside the box".
Think of this as a symbiotic relationship between the PC Host and the Somniloquy. The Torrent client will be modified so as to take advantage of this.
Torrents already are well positioned to take advantage of this because they are already diced into lots of little pieces. The computer goes to sleep and Somniloquy tries to download a memory-available appropriate chunk of the whole download. When this has been filled, the host turns on, the chunk is transferred to the larger disk, and another chunk is downloaded.
This really shouldn't impact your seeding capabilities that much due to random distribution (unless you've got a really low number of seeds and peers), and could be mitigated by retaining a certain percentage of pieces from the previous chunk when starting the next.
JavaScript can send the datapoints to the server as events without waiting for navigation events - think AJAX.
As for current real world implementation, I've only seen a bank site that uses a Flash app for login, where they measure the typing cadence for user name and password.
Having an unexpected cadence does not prevent log in, but does inform the server to later do additional identity validation, and you get prompted from a pre-configured pool of questions when you try to do things like send money to that guy who just needs to bribe the official, and then the wealth of a princess will be yours...
Millions of gigabits of internet data are handled every second by Linux based servers, worldwide, including a significant traffic for modern reworkings of the world's oldest profession.
Which distro do they run?
we're not recommending Foxit. We're not recommending Sumatra. Or PDF-Xchange, CoolPDF or eXPert PDF. Instead, we recommend users to find their own Adobe Reader replacement. This way we get more heterogeneous userbase, which is a good idea security-wise.
adblock plus doesn't block anything by default - you either need to define your own filters, or to subscribe to a published filterset.
Filtersets that block ads will block some of the JavaScript used to embed Google's text ads, if not to reclaim the space on the page, then to protect the privacy of the user, who is trying to download content from the web page, and not have their browsing activity tracked by Doubleclick.
You-Tube is losing money, so use their services even more of you don't like them
They give us content at a loss, but make up for it in volume.
I may having a bit of a slow day. This series of statements doesn't seem logically sound.
Perhaps the intent is to state:
However, this thesis is at odds with the recommendation to "use their services even more if you don't like them".
Not only did Facebook take two weeks to act, but when they did choose to act they acted with the presumption of guilt.
Bravo.
Less than a week ago is was Rick752. Now this one. Definitely reinforces the importance of collaboration, and the fragile nature of ideas.
Price point depends on the server workload pattern. Non-paywalled article http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/76522/tr-2008-169.pdf
It looks like this is getting less than 80% of the multitouch navigation events correct - rotating when the user intent is to zoom, zooming in when the user intends to zoom out, things like that. I hear MS Surface has the same issues.
Mebbe in a bit. But for now, it's something that looks cool.
Taking a quick look through the content at the government site, I must say I'm surprised. CC licensed content, links to external resources, a collection of international points of view. I'd be truly impressed if they'd managed to get all these folks in a room together.
Regardless, kudos to Canada for hitting the 21st century.
And I was doubly impressed to notice the absence of web beacons / analytics scripts.
While Kindle may not directly consume trees, I'd put my money on it having a total cradle to grave environmental cost greater than that of the average number of books that it replaces.
Remember, a book is pretty much biodegradable. Once created, it doesn't consume additional resources. It's manufacture doesn't have very high purity standards - I could theoretically make a book in my backyard and basement.
A Kindle, however, is pretty much non-biodegradable and likely contains hazardous materials. Once created, it continues to consume resources - electricity has to be made somewhere, and it's not only to keep the kindle alive, but the cost of maintaining the infrastructure to transmit the bits. Since it contains modern computer chips, at least part of its manufacture has stringent purity controls (5 nines plus) that are energy intensive.
So ya, killing trees? Sometimes better than the alternatives.
So that they can be re-installed without requiring the re-insertion of the DVD.
If they're using the same functionality as "Windows Features" in Vista, then when the feature is disabled, it's uninstalled and it cannot be executed. Imagine having the Windows ISO copied to the HDD and not having it mounted. If you want to install a component (like IIS), you don't go digging for the install disk - just check a checkbox and wait 10+ minutes.
And when it's uninstalled, the files remain on the HDD in the ISO equivalent, but do not remain in the 'accessible' folder structure, and are therefore no executable.
I'd expect that you'd be hard pressed to find iExplore.exe after unchecking the "IE8" checkbox in Win7.
Sounds like the network admin should have banned his MAC from external access. Easy, OS and client independent implementation.
But cancer has been figured out - don't smoke, drink less alcohol, and don't be obese. Also, try not to live in a developing country where your workplace has a higher chance of exposing you to known carcinogens - at least in developed countries you get significant settlements if this happens.
Seriously, if I were a medical researcher, faced with the blatant disregard for health endemic to the general populace, I'd be researching my belly button lint too.
So not only did he withhold passwords.
And have modems attached to computers.
But it's going to take 250,000$ to fix.
Can the defense claim insanity on behalf of the prosecution, 'cause I think we've just hit bat country!
Corporations will do it to improve the overall security of their network. Wait. Corporations worrying about network security? Hahaha.
We tried using a nightly build of Firefox 3.1 to see how performance might change in the future, but it locked up while running the Dromaeo tests so we opted to leave it for now. To be fair, the browser is still in beta, so it wouldn't really be a good test.
And also from the comments:
NO! The whole *POINT* of this is that people *DON'T* recompile Firefox - the just use the one from their distro.
Not to say that the Tux RADAR articles that I've read recently have impressed me in terms of technical diligence, but they have amused me, and motivated some heated discussion on topics that would otherwise get little attention. How many mouse-clicks are appropriate while installing an OS?
I mean, and back on topic, without someone pointing out that JS isn't as fast in the default build of Fx on Fedora, who's to get excited about a PGO'd build dropping?
The fact is that science and religion really are, in at least one very core area, mutually exclusive.
You're thinking rationally. Religion is not rational and therefore needn't exclude the possibility of independent rational thought.
Further analysis shows that the heart is actually a team of codemonkeys madly devoting all waking hours to understand the hundreds of different data formats needed to supply even the most basic integration.
Seriously tho, the main cost to developing this would be getting integrated with all the different potential data providers. Recognizing a physical bar code is easy. Looking up the current price at nearby retailers? More difficult.
Was it that the original article was in the "Life - Relationships" section of the paper that was your first tip off?
Gosh, glad the Scots invented wool - the sheep must have been cold before that.
Well, paper was good, as long as we're talking long fibers for paper. As we've moved to shorter fibers via more destructive pulping, the potential life of paper has been reduced.