It used to be that flash memory only worked reliably for a limited number of write cycles. Is this still the case. If not, will this greatly limit the life span of these drives?
I'm a little bit rusty on my finiding. Can someone explain how to finid properly? I've checked all the usual sources, and even read the manual, but there was simply no good information on how to finid, finidation, finidoscopies, or finid finales.
I'm glad that Slashdot decided to trot out this new design. People weren't sitting so high in the saddle about the old one. This will spur us on to great new stories (without duplicates). Taco has really taken the reins with this.
comfortable lots of light energy efficient quiet easy to run wires between rooms and under floors (speaker wire, ethernet, etc.) multiple outputs on every wall for ethernet and power ability to change the reflectivity or transmissiveness of windows to block out excess sunlight lots of plants, inside and outside. Outside plants should be old growth - don't cut down all the trees on the property to build it. sound proof, cool room for servers and other electronics lots of storage lots of closet and shelf space runway landing lights in the garage:-) RFID house key multi-zone climate control rooms with good acoustics for home theatre equipment large kitchen with granite counters open, spacious floorplan unobtrusive displays in every room
Any bank that tried this would loose my business that day. You do not blackmail me into running your code on my computer. Why should I trust your code, or even allow it on my machine? Why should I pay for the privilege of accessing my own money through the bank? And why would a bank care what I check my balance with anyway? I'm not uploading files to the bank, I'm sending HTTP requests over SSL to its web server. If I can somehow infect its servers from my computer, the bank has a HUGE problem (there is no reason why this should be possible.) Plus, I have my own virus scanning software, and no interest in purchasing theirs too. So try to pull that one, you loose a customer immediately.
That's not what I said. Not Linux running inside MacOS. A chip on the MB that runs embedded Linux and does nothing but handle this obfuscation function. There are many chips on motherboards that run embedded code. PC BIOS chips are a good example.
I think that there will be an embedded Linux kernel running on a chip on the motherboard. This kernel will execute certain system calls. The result of the call execution will depend on a key (cryptographic?) which will be derived from something particular to your (or Apple) hardware. If you do not have the right key in hardware, the result will be wrong, and OS X will not run. Part of the key to this is that some code in OS X will have to translate to different, obfuscated code, and when obfuscated, still derive the correct solution using the input key correctly. Code obfuscation allows you to not only hide what a program is doing, but to make the line that executes dependent on the result of a method in a way that is difficult or impossible for a code analyzer to detect. (Since the result does not exist until run-time, a reverse compiler can not determine what the result is.) If the result depends on this input key (built into Apple motherboards), then having the wrong (or no key) means that the code will not translate correctly, and therefore OS X will fail to run.
I do not think that this has ANYTHING to do with running multiple OSs simultaneously. I think that Windows was listed in the set simply for obfuscation purposes - to hide the real purpose from slashdot readers, journalists, hackers, and competitors.
The slashdot editors were probably not assigning the XBOX 360 to have the same value as the Dreamcast, but rather just doing a comparison. But since they have performed the assignment, the XBOX 360 will fail several years ago, in EXACTLY the same way as the Dreamcast.:-)
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The reason that stock options don't work is that if you underpay someone, they will be unhappy. But if you pay someone enough, then increasing their pay has diminishing returns. Example. I pay a CEO $400,000 per year. They can afford just about anything they want. Now I pay them $5 million per year. Do they work harder or more intelligently? Nope. Same thing applies to other workers.
On the other hand, if you make your workers *happy*, they will work for *less* money. See university profs for an example. So many people want to be a prof that universities can afford to pay less - but only because lots of people WANT those jobs.
Happiness motivates. Too much money doesn't do much. Too little money demotivates.
I've previously published two papers on a very similar idea - using distributed social trust networks to make trust judgements, which is essentially what Outfoxed is. You can find the papers at:
Or perhaps the ratings dropped... because they decided to replace strong plots and good character development with gratuitious sexual situations in order to attract UPN's 18-25 year old male target audience. Or perhaps they relied too much on time travel stories, which have become rather cliche in Trek of late. Or perhaps not calling it Star Trek for two years didn't help? Or perhaps the really BAD theme music for Enterprise? Or the tortured script of Nemesis, which was an obvious attempt to combine the elements of the higher rating treks into a new movie? Or Berman and Braga not understanding what Trek audiences really like?
Ok. So I ran the utility and got 33 discrepancies. Some look like they are probably default MS stuff (as described on the sysinternals site). But not all. But how do I tell what those other things are? Are they a rootkit, or just a normal part of Windows?
You don't want your whole computing experience to be controlled by one or two companies. You really don't. Let's look at the cable industry for an example. My local cable company charges $15/month just for the stations you get over the air, and forces you to use a converter box. A cable subscription with most channels (but no premium channels) is $50/month = $600/year! Plus, cable companies are renowned for terrible service and prices that go up 10% / year.
Now imagine being forced to use THEIR choice of system in THEIR choice of configuration, with your data stored on THEIR server. Want to move or switch providers? Sorry. They've got your data. Want to install your favorite software? Sorry. Only their applications are allowed. Wishing for Office 2010? Sorry. They think Office 97 is good enough. Machine has a problem? Well, they'll have to send someone out at some point in the next 24 hours, and you'll have to wait at home for them, just like you do for cable.
And what makes you think that a cable company won't be vulnerable to all the attacks we have now?
All this would do is give us high prices, poor service, restricted choices, outside control of our data and usage, lots of ads, and little chance of improved security.
I have used Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional for many years, and ViaVoice before that. ViaVoice's recognition was not so great, and the program crashed constantly. Dragon works very well. I can do around 140-150 wpm with it. I seem to have to make 1-2 corrections per sentence, sometimes less. I am using Dragon 7, but there is a new version (8) out now. I highly recommend this program if you have repetitive stress injuries, or would like to avoid developing them.
I question the results of the study for several reasons:
-My productivity / output do not corrolate to how much I type. -How much I type does relate to what projects I'm working on and what I have to do that day. Perhaps the people who typed more had assignments that month that required more typing. -68 degrees is comfortable for me. 77 is sweltering. -In warm offices, my productivity falls. -In warm offices, I get sleepy.
Most of the people who suddenly downloaded the update were probably already using a prior version of Firefox. I would seriously doubt that this represents anything like 1 million new users.
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What features would you like in your next generation browser? Does Firefox 2.0 meet your needs? What would you like to see improved?
It used to be that flash memory only worked reliably for a limited number of write cycles. Is this still the case. If not, will this greatly limit the life span of these drives?
Wow. It's happened. My online experience will never be the same again...
I'm a little bit rusty on my finiding. Can someone explain how to finid properly? I've checked all the usual sources, and even read the manual, but there was simply no good information on how to finid, finidation, finidoscopies, or finid finales.
I'm glad that Slashdot decided to trot out this new design. People weren't sitting so high in the saddle about the old one. This will spur us on to great new stories (without duplicates). Taco has really taken the reins with this.
The average efficiency of pony fans is much higher among Gmail users than among Office Live users.
Huh? Can you repeat that story?
comfortable :-)
lots of light
energy efficient
quiet
easy to run wires between rooms and under floors (speaker wire, ethernet, etc.)
multiple outputs on every wall for ethernet and power
ability to change the reflectivity or transmissiveness of windows to block out excess sunlight
lots of plants, inside and outside. Outside plants should be old growth - don't cut down all the trees on the property to build it.
sound proof, cool room for servers and other electronics
lots of storage
lots of closet and shelf space
runway landing lights in the garage
RFID house key
multi-zone climate control
rooms with good acoustics for home theatre equipment
large kitchen with granite counters
open, spacious floorplan
unobtrusive displays in every room
Any bank that tried this would loose my business that day. You do not blackmail me into running your code on my computer. Why should I trust your code, or even allow it on my machine? Why should I pay for the privilege of accessing my own money through the bank? And why would a bank care what I check my balance with anyway? I'm not uploading files to the bank, I'm sending HTTP requests over SSL to its web server. If I can somehow infect its servers from my computer, the bank has a HUGE problem (there is no reason why this should be possible.) Plus, I have my own virus scanning software, and no interest in purchasing theirs too. So try to pull that one, you loose a customer immediately.
That's not what I said. Not Linux running inside MacOS. A chip on the MB that runs embedded Linux and does nothing but handle this obfuscation function. There are many chips on motherboards that run embedded code. PC BIOS chips are a good example.
I think that there will be an embedded Linux kernel running on a chip on the motherboard. This kernel will execute certain system calls. The result of the call execution will depend on a key (cryptographic?) which will be derived from something particular to your (or Apple) hardware. If you do not have the right key in hardware, the result will be wrong, and OS X will not run. Part of the key to this is that some code in OS X will have to translate to different, obfuscated code, and when obfuscated, still derive the correct solution using the input key correctly. Code obfuscation allows you to not only hide what a program is doing, but to make the line that executes dependent on the result of a method in a way that is difficult or impossible for a code analyzer to detect. (Since the result does not exist until run-time, a reverse compiler can not determine what the result is.) If the result depends on this input key (built into Apple motherboards), then having the wrong (or no key) means that the code will not translate correctly, and therefore OS X will fail to run.
I do not think that this has ANYTHING to do with running multiple OSs simultaneously. I think that Windows was listed in the set simply for obfuscation purposes - to hide the real purpose from slashdot readers, journalists, hackers, and competitors.
The slashdot editors were probably not assigning the XBOX 360 to have the same value as the Dreamcast, but rather just doing a comparison. But since they have performed the assignment, the XBOX 360 will fail several years ago, in EXACTLY the same way as the Dreamcast. :-)
Google has cached the entire printed article, not just the first page. See:
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http://www.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php?id=
The reason that stock options don't work is that if you underpay someone, they will be unhappy. But if you pay someone enough, then increasing their pay has diminishing returns. Example. I pay a CEO $400,000 per year. They can afford just about anything they want. Now I pay them $5 million per year. Do they work harder or more intelligently? Nope. Same thing applies to other workers.
On the other hand, if you make your workers *happy*, they will work for *less* money. See university profs for an example. So many people want to be a prof that universities can afford to pay less - but only because lots of people WANT those jobs.
Happiness motivates. Too much money doesn't do much. Too little money demotivates.
I've previously published two papers on a very similar idea - using distributed social trust networks to make trust judgements, which is essentially what Outfoxed is. You can find the papers at:
i fford.pdf
The Solar Trust Model
Michael Clifford, Charles Lavine, Matt Bishop
http://www.acsac.org/1998/abstracts/fri-a-1030-cl
Networking in The Solar Trust Model: Determining Optimal Trust Paths in a Decentralized Trust Network
http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/9.pdf
Or perhaps the ratings dropped... because they decided to replace strong plots and good character development with gratuitious sexual situations in order to attract UPN's 18-25 year old male target audience. Or perhaps they relied too much on time travel stories, which have become rather cliche in Trek of late. Or perhaps not calling it Star Trek for two years didn't help? Or perhaps the really BAD theme music for Enterprise? Or the tortured script of Nemesis, which was an obvious attempt to combine the elements of the higher rating treks into a new movie? Or Berman and Braga not understanding what Trek audiences really like?
Just a thought...
1'3" of silence sounds very impressive when played backwards - especially the backwards lyrics. :)
Ok. So I ran the utility and got 33 discrepancies. Some look like they are probably default MS stuff (as described on the sysinternals site). But not all. But how do I tell what those other things are? Are they a rootkit, or just a normal part of Windows?
Ironically, when I clicked on the comment button, Slashdot told me there was "Nothing to see here. Move along." Denial of slashdot? :-)
You don't want your whole computing experience to be controlled by one or two companies. You really don't. Let's look at the cable industry for an example. My local cable company charges $15/month just for the stations you get over the air, and forces you to use a converter box. A cable subscription with most channels (but no premium channels) is $50/month = $600/year! Plus, cable companies are renowned for terrible service and prices that go up 10% / year.
Now imagine being forced to use THEIR choice of system in THEIR choice of configuration, with your data stored on THEIR server. Want to move or switch providers? Sorry. They've got your data. Want to install your favorite software? Sorry. Only their applications are allowed. Wishing for Office 2010? Sorry. They think Office 97 is good enough. Machine has a problem? Well, they'll have to send someone out at some point in the next 24 hours, and you'll have to wait at home for them, just like you do for cable.
And what makes you think that a cable company won't be vulnerable to all the attacks we have now?
All this would do is give us high prices, poor service, restricted choices, outside control of our data and usage, lots of ads, and little chance of improved security.
No thanks!
I filed out a web form to get a printable claim form, and it just takes me to the page telling me that I can get a claim form!
I have used Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional for many years, and ViaVoice before that. ViaVoice's recognition was not so great, and the program crashed constantly. Dragon works very well. I can do around 140-150 wpm with it. I seem to have to make 1-2 corrections per sentence, sometimes less. I am using Dragon 7, but there is a new version (8) out now. I highly recommend this program if you have repetitive stress injuries, or would like to avoid developing them.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
In Soviet Russia, LINPACK simulates YOU.
All your nodes are belong to us.
I question the results of the study for several reasons:
-My productivity / output do not corrolate to how much I type.
-How much I type does relate to what projects I'm working on and what I have to do that day. Perhaps the people who typed more had assignments that month that required more typing.
-68 degrees is comfortable for me. 77 is sweltering.
-In warm offices, my productivity falls.
-In warm offices, I get sleepy.
Most of the people who suddenly downloaded the update were probably already using a prior version of Firefox. I would seriously doubt that this represents anything like 1 million new users.