What intel needs is a superior architecture that can successfully microcode intel instructions with minimal performance cost.
You mean, like x86-64?
You don't seriously think that modern Intel processors are actually CISC, right? The underlying instruction set is closer to a DEC Alpha than it is to an 80x86 processor....
Redmond *can* ship good software... but they're hobbled by backwards compatibility. They're not willing to eat the same poison pill that Apple did when they shifted to OSX.
Redmond's software for platforms where they've declared from the outset that they're not going to try for backwards compatibility is actually pretty good, from a software engineering standpoint. That's the xbox line and the current generation of WinMo. The user interface leaves a lot to be desired, but the actual underlying platform is pretty good.
The solution? Put the laptop up on a stand next to the other monitor, and use both.
That's half of the solution. The other half is get used to using the laptop as the secondary display. It's smaller, and should be used for reference information/e-mail/whatever while the big screen display is the one you do your actual work on. That's how I have my desktop set up (admittedly, in this case it's the difference between a 22" display and a 24" display, but it's the same logic). The bigger better display gets used as the main display, and the smaller one that's a bit finicky gets used for information lookup only.
Also, most book stands make *very* good laptop stands, especially for a laptop in the 13" range where it's not going to be too heavy...
Ask yourself whether you need a server, or you simply need to access your home computer.
If you just need to access your home computer to see files/etc., then a service like LogMeIn or TeamViewer would probably work for you. They work through NAT and don't require a publicly routable IP address to access specific equipment.
What do they charge for installation, and how does the pricing scale?
I could see a business case for charging that much for the first year, to cover the costs of installing it, if you're in an area where the idea of running fiber along the poles is simply not going to fly, but if that were the case, the cost for upgrading to say a 100mbit fiber should be significantly less than the initial 10mbit, because that's just provisioning at their end.
That being said, I'm fairly sure that's not actually the case and this is just normal asshattery for them.
I'd be very surprised if my HTC One V, on Koodo Mobile here in Canada, came with those preinstalled....
Are you entirely sure that it's HTC that's adding that crap, and not Sprint? None of the apps you have listed came preinstalled on my phone.In fact, the only non-Google apps that came preinstalled on my phone were Dropbox, HTC Hub, Polaris Office (full), Sound Hound, and TuneIn Radio. I doubt most users would complain about any of those, even if they don't use them. And having a fully licensed copy of Polaris Office out of the box on a $150 phone is actually pretty nice of them....
Most of what I've seen Excel get used for in an office setting would be better served by a database....
But the point you make is fair enough, and the point I was going to make: people aren't going to invest in a new platform without a major impetus to go looking for a new platform. If the one they have works for what they're doing, then it's generally less hassle to keep buying it. This is why some banks are still running DOS....
Until Microsoft stops selling corporate licenses and forces everybody to Office Online where they can charge a monthly tithe, business simply isn't going to look elsewhere. It's coming... They're already trying to force home users to an online version... but I doubt Microsoft is stupid enough to think that business will happily accept switching to a platform where they don't have control over the files themselves, and home users will continue to buy the monthly tithe version of MS Office, because that's what they have at work. Very savvy, really....
Aren't high-G turns already obsolete (along with 'dogfighting')?
They're only obsolete because the weapons have evolved to make it so. The pilot can't take a 28g sharp turn to avoid an incoming missile, so chaff and other deterrence systems were developped so that the pilot can take a turn they can survive. I doubt he was suggesting that such systems be abandoned entirely, but making an aircraft that can take a hard turn like that in addition to having ECM/chaff could only improve things. Until laser and other energy weapons that can't be dodged are the norm, it's unlikely that agility will ever become a non-issue in designing a fighter.
Hollywood *rarely* gets technical issues right, but the speech in Top Gun where they were talking about pilots becoming reliant on missiles in Korea was actually true, and the basic principle should still be true today. Dogfighting specifically doesn't really happen any more, but the basic evasive agility skills that it's based on are still applicable. That's actually the point of the article, as I understand it: the pilot is, by far, the biggest limiting factor on the agility of aircraft today, and if you can remove the pilot you can make something that's faster, accelerates harder, and is more agile. As others point out, they need to figure out a way to make it unhackable for it to be truly reliable, but that isn't an impossible task.
You can probably count on your fingers the number of corporate logos that are well known all over the world. A *lot* of brands that sell all over the world use different logos in different markets, for one reason or another, which cuts the number down to products like Coca Cola, and a very small number of car companies that actually sell their product everywhere without rebranding for different markets. Maybe a couple of cell phone manufacturers do it, too, but they don't sell in every market.
Identifying the individual computers can be done in a number of ways.
That are all easily defeated. Ping fingerprinting isn't reliable because of firewall configuration. Agent strings are easily spoofed. Cookies are trivial to circumvent. Javascript *could* tell you what processes are running on a system, but with sandboxing and default security settings in modern browsers (even Internet Exploder), it wouldn't be feasible. Even using Flash to do it wouldn't work, because Flash isn't installed everywhere any more, and because it's sandboxed on most installations now. To get any kind of uniquely identifiable information that's verifiable and storable at the server side would require privileges that aren't given to browsers any more, and that's not even considering the load that it would place on the server.
How do you suggest, then, that individual computers be identified? I am not trolling you here, I honestly can't think of a way to identify an individual computer that wouldn't be easy to circumvent for the person writing the cracking software.
In many cities and towns in Europe, advertising only allowed to be very low key, so that it doesn't spoil the look of the place. Especially so in historical locations. They still flourish.
This. I don't object to advertising in principle, and even disable adblock on certain domains. If the site puts up one of those "hey, you're using adblock, but we need the money can you please enable advertising?" messages up, I will usually disable adblock for that specific site, especially if it's a site I use on a regular basis.
What I object to are the fullscreen flash popups that some sites have, or the ones that start playing obnoxious music at you. And with HTML5, you can't get around just those ones by disabling flash. If the advertising is discrete, I don't even mind being tracked: I use addons to remove LSO's and other cookies when I close the browser. If the advertising industry hadn't started with that crap, I probably wouldn't have bothered finding adblock or equivalent.
You should have a password on your phone anyway... if it grows legs and walks off in a coffee shop, then the password will probably protect it (at least to the point that they won't bother taking your data from the phone and would simply factory reset it and be done with it). The fuzz snooping in your phone is far from the only reason to put a password on it, and, I would hope, is probably the least likely to be snooping in your phone by a very wide margin.
On a modern network, it is.... at least at the consumer level where nobody knows how to configure a subnet manually, but if you're managing any kind of large scale network it becomes very difficult to work with static configurations on every workstation even when you know how.
That being said, for a small network you *could* simply assign a static configuration to everything and turn off DHCP. It wouldn't protect you because, as others have said, the MAC and IP address could be cloned anyway, but it would offer an added layer of annoyance for whoever's doing it, such that they'd probably go somewhere else.
The truth that nobody wants to really admit is that there's simply no way to keep a determined hacker out of a wireless network. It's, by its very nature, an open network. About the best you can do, short of going wired, is regularly rotate your wireless passwords (get a new one every day, for example), and also maybe set up a VPN on your local network, so that even if you're on the wifi you can't actually do anything with it without connecting to the VPN.
Piracy is a problem for the famous artists, not really a problem since they're rich and famous already
You're making the mistake of assuming that famous artists are automatically rich and famous. I don't think you understand how badly the record labels get their tentacles into the artists themselves... case in point, the song Black Velvet, by Alannah Myles, was released on her first album in 1989. The song was a #1 hit in the US and top 10 on pretty much every chart around the world. Over the course of her career, she was hit for over $7million in "expenses" for the production of her 3 albums, and as a result, even though that's one of the most overplayed songs on the radio, she didn't see her first royalty cheque until 2008.
In other words: even though she was an international mega star, she had to stop making records in order to start making money.
£357 + shipping to north america for a 27" display, I may as well go to the Apple store and buy a 27" Cinema display. It'll work out to about the same cost for me....
The point of the Korean ones is that they're half the cost, or less.
I suppose it is if you've never seen a widescreen film at its native resolution before....
Besides, if you get a 1920x1080 display and put it in portrait mode (which requires not buying the cheapest one you can, admittedly), it's actually better for reading stuff like webpages/documents than a 4:3 monitor is, even if the 4:3 is in portrait.
Did it come with Powerpoint? Did it come with Vizio? Did it come with other stuff? Quite likely (since the same package is available here), that's the Student & Teacher edition, which comes with Word, Excel, and OneNote (which LO doesn't have, but which is of limited use for most of us). Apples to Apples, and all that... you need to compare it to the MS Office version that has all of the tools that LO comes with.
That being said, most of what LO comes with is useless for most of us. That's one of the reasons I install AbiWord and gnumeric instead: I'd rather a lightweight GTK app that loads almost instantly over LO. LO loads relatively quickly, but it's an order of magnitude slower than AbiWord, and gods help you if you try running it over SSH... even with nx installed, it's a slug.
Most OO or LO users would switch to something like Google Docs or AbiWord if they had to pay the same price as they would for MS Office. Personal observation, yadda yadda, but the majority of Office users don't actually need Office, they just need Word, and for *most* of us, AbiWord will quite happily serve their needs.
The problem is, we've already tried giving them food and humanitarian aid. The situation in NK isn't because we're not trying to help, it's because the regime hoards everything we send them for themselves.
The only way to resolve that would be to get rid of the regime, but that's unlikely to happen because China doesn't want US forces on their border.
Having an 800W PSU in your server does not mean that the server draws 800W. Mine doesn't draw anywhere near that much. Admittedly, my server isn't doing minecraft or any game server, but it is running FTP/HTTP, and e-mail, and using server-side heuristic analysis on spam rather than RBL's, so the load on it is non-zero.
You can ask him for his food diary, if you like. The contact link is on the website I linked.
In short, he had diet soda, iced tea, or water for every drink, and that was about it. He was shown eating the bun on his hamburger in many shots during the film, so I don't think he even tried ordering meals without the bun (which most fast food restaurants will do if you ask for it).
He probably did avoid the chips, but I don't know for sure. I haven't read the food diary. But as carbs go, chips and crisps are actually pretty good for you, because they have a lower glycemic index than other more processed carbs.
You may also want to see Fat Head. It's on Netflix. He makes the argument that the reason that people gain weight is by having too much carbohydrates (which the body is exceptionally good at turning into glucose), and that we should be eating a higher fat diet. He then proves the point by eating nothing but fast food for a month and losing weight, by restricting his caloric intake, avoiding foods that tell the body to store fat (carbs), and getting a reasonable amount of exercise.
Basically the same point... carbs trigger the insulin response, which tells the fat cells to start storing fat. Even if you're getting 1000 calories less than you should be, you won't lose as much weight as expected (and may not lose weight at all) because carbs tell the body to store fat.
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That particular Kim is pushing up daisies, actually....
What intel needs is a superior architecture that can successfully microcode intel instructions with minimal performance cost.
You mean, like x86-64?
You don't seriously think that modern Intel processors are actually CISC, right? The underlying instruction set is closer to a DEC Alpha than it is to an 80x86 processor....
Redmond *can* ship good software... but they're hobbled by backwards compatibility. They're not willing to eat the same poison pill that Apple did when they shifted to OSX.
Redmond's software for platforms where they've declared from the outset that they're not going to try for backwards compatibility is actually pretty good, from a software engineering standpoint. That's the xbox line and the current generation of WinMo. The user interface leaves a lot to be desired, but the actual underlying platform is pretty good.
The solution? Put the laptop up on a stand next to the other monitor, and use both.
That's half of the solution. The other half is get used to using the laptop as the secondary display. It's smaller, and should be used for reference information/e-mail/whatever while the big screen display is the one you do your actual work on. That's how I have my desktop set up (admittedly, in this case it's the difference between a 22" display and a 24" display, but it's the same logic). The bigger better display gets used as the main display, and the smaller one that's a bit finicky gets used for information lookup only.
Also, most book stands make *very* good laptop stands, especially for a laptop in the 13" range where it's not going to be too heavy...
Ask yourself whether you need a server, or you simply need to access your home computer.
If you just need to access your home computer to see files/etc., then a service like LogMeIn or TeamViewer would probably work for you. They work through NAT and don't require a publicly routable IP address to access specific equipment.
What do they charge for installation, and how does the pricing scale?
I could see a business case for charging that much for the first year, to cover the costs of installing it, if you're in an area where the idea of running fiber along the poles is simply not going to fly, but if that were the case, the cost for upgrading to say a 100mbit fiber should be significantly less than the initial 10mbit, because that's just provisioning at their end.
That being said, I'm fairly sure that's not actually the case and this is just normal asshattery for them.
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Sprint Navigation
Sprint TV
I'd be very surprised if my HTC One V, on Koodo Mobile here in Canada, came with those preinstalled....
Are you entirely sure that it's HTC that's adding that crap, and not Sprint? None of the apps you have listed came preinstalled on my phone.In fact, the only non-Google apps that came preinstalled on my phone were Dropbox, HTC Hub, Polaris Office (full), Sound Hound, and TuneIn Radio. I doubt most users would complain about any of those, even if they don't use them. And having a fully licensed copy of Polaris Office out of the box on a $150 phone is actually pretty nice of them....
Most of what I've seen Excel get used for in an office setting would be better served by a database....
But the point you make is fair enough, and the point I was going to make: people aren't going to invest in a new platform without a major impetus to go looking for a new platform. If the one they have works for what they're doing, then it's generally less hassle to keep buying it. This is why some banks are still running DOS....
Until Microsoft stops selling corporate licenses and forces everybody to Office Online where they can charge a monthly tithe, business simply isn't going to look elsewhere. It's coming... They're already trying to force home users to an online version... but I doubt Microsoft is stupid enough to think that business will happily accept switching to a platform where they don't have control over the files themselves, and home users will continue to buy the monthly tithe version of MS Office, because that's what they have at work. Very savvy, really....
You know Wargames and Terminator, but don't know Asimov?
Aren't high-G turns already obsolete (along with 'dogfighting')?
They're only obsolete because the weapons have evolved to make it so. The pilot can't take a 28g sharp turn to avoid an incoming missile, so chaff and other deterrence systems were developped so that the pilot can take a turn they can survive. I doubt he was suggesting that such systems be abandoned entirely, but making an aircraft that can take a hard turn like that in addition to having ECM/chaff could only improve things. Until laser and other energy weapons that can't be dodged are the norm, it's unlikely that agility will ever become a non-issue in designing a fighter.
Hollywood *rarely* gets technical issues right, but the speech in Top Gun where they were talking about pilots becoming reliant on missiles in Korea was actually true, and the basic principle should still be true today. Dogfighting specifically doesn't really happen any more, but the basic evasive agility skills that it's based on are still applicable. That's actually the point of the article, as I understand it: the pilot is, by far, the biggest limiting factor on the agility of aircraft today, and if you can remove the pilot you can make something that's faster, accelerates harder, and is more agile. As others point out, they need to figure out a way to make it unhackable for it to be truly reliable, but that isn't an impossible task.
You can probably count on your fingers the number of corporate logos that are well known all over the world. A *lot* of brands that sell all over the world use different logos in different markets, for one reason or another, which cuts the number down to products like Coca Cola, and a very small number of car companies that actually sell their product everywhere without rebranding for different markets. Maybe a couple of cell phone manufacturers do it, too, but they don't sell in every market.
Identifying the individual computers can be done in a number of ways.
That are all easily defeated. Ping fingerprinting isn't reliable because of firewall configuration. Agent strings are easily spoofed. Cookies are trivial to circumvent. Javascript *could* tell you what processes are running on a system, but with sandboxing and default security settings in modern browsers (even Internet Exploder), it wouldn't be feasible. Even using Flash to do it wouldn't work, because Flash isn't installed everywhere any more, and because it's sandboxed on most installations now. To get any kind of uniquely identifiable information that's verifiable and storable at the server side would require privileges that aren't given to browsers any more, and that's not even considering the load that it would place on the server.
How do you suggest, then, that individual computers be identified? I am not trolling you here, I honestly can't think of a way to identify an individual computer that wouldn't be easy to circumvent for the person writing the cracking software.
In many cities and towns in Europe, advertising only allowed to be very low key, so that it doesn't spoil the look of the place. Especially so in historical locations. They still flourish.
This. I don't object to advertising in principle, and even disable adblock on certain domains. If the site puts up one of those "hey, you're using adblock, but we need the money can you please enable advertising?" messages up, I will usually disable adblock for that specific site, especially if it's a site I use on a regular basis.
What I object to are the fullscreen flash popups that some sites have, or the ones that start playing obnoxious music at you. And with HTML5, you can't get around just those ones by disabling flash. If the advertising is discrete, I don't even mind being tracked: I use addons to remove LSO's and other cookies when I close the browser. If the advertising industry hadn't started with that crap, I probably wouldn't have bothered finding adblock or equivalent.
You should have a password on your phone anyway... if it grows legs and walks off in a coffee shop, then the password will probably protect it (at least to the point that they won't bother taking your data from the phone and would simply factory reset it and be done with it). The fuzz snooping in your phone is far from the only reason to put a password on it, and, I would hope, is probably the least likely to be snooping in your phone by a very wide margin.
On a modern network, it is.... at least at the consumer level where nobody knows how to configure a subnet manually, but if you're managing any kind of large scale network it becomes very difficult to work with static configurations on every workstation even when you know how.
That being said, for a small network you *could* simply assign a static configuration to everything and turn off DHCP. It wouldn't protect you because, as others have said, the MAC and IP address could be cloned anyway, but it would offer an added layer of annoyance for whoever's doing it, such that they'd probably go somewhere else.
The truth that nobody wants to really admit is that there's simply no way to keep a determined hacker out of a wireless network. It's, by its very nature, an open network. About the best you can do, short of going wired, is regularly rotate your wireless passwords (get a new one every day, for example), and also maybe set up a VPN on your local network, so that even if you're on the wifi you can't actually do anything with it without connecting to the VPN.
Piracy is a problem for the famous artists, not really a problem since they're rich and famous already
You're making the mistake of assuming that famous artists are automatically rich and famous. I don't think you understand how badly the record labels get their tentacles into the artists themselves... case in point, the song Black Velvet, by Alannah Myles, was released on her first album in 1989. The song was a #1 hit in the US and top 10 on pretty much every chart around the world. Over the course of her career, she was hit for over $7million in "expenses" for the production of her 3 albums, and as a result, even though that's one of the most overplayed songs on the radio, she didn't see her first royalty cheque until 2008.
In other words: even though she was an international mega star, she had to stop making records in order to start making money.
£357 + shipping to north america for a 27" display, I may as well go to the Apple store and buy a 27" Cinema display. It'll work out to about the same cost for me....
The point of the Korean ones is that they're half the cost, or less.
It's not a synonym for “wide-screen.”
I suppose it is if you've never seen a widescreen film at its native resolution before....
Besides, if you get a 1920x1080 display and put it in portrait mode (which requires not buying the cheapest one you can, admittedly), it's actually better for reading stuff like webpages/documents than a 4:3 monitor is, even if the 4:3 is in portrait.
What Office tools did you get with that?
Did it come with Powerpoint? Did it come with Vizio? Did it come with other stuff? Quite likely (since the same package is available here), that's the Student & Teacher edition, which comes with Word, Excel, and OneNote (which LO doesn't have, but which is of limited use for most of us). Apples to Apples, and all that... you need to compare it to the MS Office version that has all of the tools that LO comes with.
That being said, most of what LO comes with is useless for most of us. That's one of the reasons I install AbiWord and gnumeric instead: I'd rather a lightweight GTK app that loads almost instantly over LO. LO loads relatively quickly, but it's an order of magnitude slower than AbiWord, and gods help you if you try running it over SSH... even with nx installed, it's a slug.
Most OO or LO users would switch to something like Google Docs or AbiWord if they had to pay the same price as they would for MS Office. Personal observation, yadda yadda, but the majority of Office users don't actually need Office, they just need Word, and for *most* of us, AbiWord will quite happily serve their needs.
The problem is, we've already tried giving them food and humanitarian aid. The situation in NK isn't because we're not trying to help, it's because the regime hoards everything we send them for themselves.
The only way to resolve that would be to get rid of the regime, but that's unlikely to happen because China doesn't want US forces on their border.
That's fine if you don't have a lot of data to back up... but if you do have a lot of data then it stops being a viable option.
Having an 800W PSU in your server does not mean that the server draws 800W. Mine doesn't draw anywhere near that much. Admittedly, my server isn't doing minecraft or any game server, but it is running FTP/HTTP, and e-mail, and using server-side heuristic analysis on spam rather than RBL's, so the load on it is non-zero.
You can ask him for his food diary, if you like. The contact link is on the website I linked.
In short, he had diet soda, iced tea, or water for every drink, and that was about it. He was shown eating the bun on his hamburger in many shots during the film, so I don't think he even tried ordering meals without the bun (which most fast food restaurants will do if you ask for it).
He probably did avoid the chips, but I don't know for sure. I haven't read the food diary. But as carbs go, chips and crisps are actually pretty good for you, because they have a lower glycemic index than other more processed carbs.
You may also want to see Fat Head. It's on Netflix. He makes the argument that the reason that people gain weight is by having too much carbohydrates (which the body is exceptionally good at turning into glucose), and that we should be eating a higher fat diet. He then proves the point by eating nothing but fast food for a month and losing weight, by restricting his caloric intake, avoiding foods that tell the body to store fat (carbs), and getting a reasonable amount of exercise.
Basically the same point... carbs trigger the insulin response, which tells the fat cells to start storing fat. Even if you're getting 1000 calories less than you should be, you won't lose as much weight as expected (and may not lose weight at all) because carbs tell the body to store fat.