There are tons of problems which are NP hard. So if we solve one, solving these problems will be feasible.
Timetabling - Making timetables automatically. Resource Distribution - (Similar to timetabling) - which can sort out how limited resources should be utilised for maximum efficiency Bin Packing - Which will make compression algorithms and sorting your favourite stuff into optical disks more efficient TSP - Which can get the optimal route between a number of locations - the shipping/transport industry will love this Protein Folding - Is also NP hard, which means that the biochemical and medical industry gets a significant boost (etc)...
They're not unsolvable, they're infeasible. There's an important difference.
You can solve TSP for 1 million cities if you're willing to wait a few billion years, but the fact that you're waiting a few billion years makes it infeasible.
It he's nerdy but he's a fucking serial killer that doesn't care too much about fashion or stupid musical groups, or his state of social presentation. He's fucking cool and he doesn't really give a shit about that stuff. I think that helps Apple to connect with a new audience.
95% of Serial Killers agree that Apple is the product for them.
And there's one actual virus on that list... which, if you read the description, you'll see is a proof of concept. Wow, OS X is just as insecure as Windows!
Alcatraz has had a number of jailbreaks. My grandmother's white fence has had 0 jailbreaks. My grandmother's fence is more secure than Alcatraz!
Just because few people take advantage of such a system doesn't mean anything. Mac has a tendacy to pull out a large patch every few months or so - that's insecurity at its finest. Obviously if they had larger market share in this day and age, they'd be more viruses.
An MP4 movie is hardly the sort of thing you'd test a quad core with a demon of a video card though is it?
My 4 year old mobile phone can constantly loop an mp4 - granted the screen size is much smaller, but you're not going to buy a laptop like that to watch MP4s on it for 6.43 hours are you? You'll want to play something high-end, which will pull a ton of cycles on the cores and the GPU.
I don't think it'll even need to switch to the primacy GPU for the mp4 viewing experience...
Well, I wouldn't call it a negative unless its replacing some other more important component (like giving it less USB drives or whatever), but if you have a socket which has nothing to plug in yet - and which Apple are pushing forward/banking that it becomes popular and doesn't bomb - then its pretty useless if it fails. Of course if you have unlimited space, no complaint - but I always get the idea that they removed a USB to shove it in or something.
Can't find a USB count in the article, may have missed it.
I find it so amazing how mac fanboys can turn every negative into a positive.
"Its not expensive, its just high quality" "I'll compare it with a laptop which is half its price and point out that my laptop looks nicer"
Cheap as possible components? You mean like Intel chips? Oh right.
I'd say customer satisfaction on macs are higher simply because of the market they target. You're not buying a mac to play the latest games (which don't usually work very well on macs), you're not buying a mac for cheap and quick (you could get better with linux), you're buying a mac to show off the fact that you've got a mac and to feel smug in front of other people.
Of course the fact that all the hardware is chosen by mac and the large price tag means that its obvious that not everyone is going to buy one (that makes it special) and its 'guaranteed' to run on the hardware.
There's a difference between cheap and value, and its a thousand dollars extra or so. You can get a high end windows PC with similar specs for around 1200 instead.
Since iOS is closed source, are they simply black-box testing it? Because I'm sure that'll work wonders.
It says they're working with apple, but I'm pretty sure if there are outstanding bugs either apple doesn't know about them, or won't show them off and lose out on this project.
Non-techy users can still use Android marketplace. If you believe yourself to be a tech user and want to try something else, you can feel free to do so. But its your risk.
Also there are tons of other reasons why a closed up marketplace sucks. If you don't want to pay the 30% to apple and sell the product from your own website - tough luck! Amazon is planning their own app store - they can't do it with apple.
Be sure not to download anything from a source you don't trust, because then you might get viruses, and then bad things can happen.
Its incredibly stupid when stuff like this happens, because its not really 'malware' in the sense of Android having a flaw which allows code to be executed, but rather idiots who expressly give this permission to this code to run, when they get it from a non-trusted source.
User Error. If Problem persists consult your user vendor.
With everyone rooting their phone, and people actively looking for open flaws to let you root the phone - not to mention every update closes the root hole...
I'd say that its less secure because the user makes it that way.
Of course, I can make my android 100% secure by never running anything on it.
Anonymous is a group composed of [Members N], lead by [Leader L] of [belief X], who attempt to attack [Company Y] over [Reason Z].
Now, we know nothing about L or N. We don't know who took part in DDOSing mastercard (or who lead it), we don't know who hacked into the site (or who lead it), nor do we know their link to whoever DDOSed scientology, google bombed scientology, or protested in the streets. We don't know anything.
So assuming that N and L are variable. X changes with L.
So Anonymous isn't really a group. Its not a 'group of people which are now becoming a terrorist group'. Its an ever-changing grouping of different people by a different leader who chooses their target and their method. Do they have a master plan? Not really.
So viewing how anon changes is rather useless, since pretty much everything changes all the time.
This is the equivalent of looking at the human race at a whole and claiming that "The human race attacked Iraq, after attacking Poland in 1942, and Troy at some point in history" and trying to draw a conclusion.
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P and NP are both sets.
There are tons of problems which are NP hard. So if we solve one, solving these problems will be feasible.
Timetabling - Making timetables automatically.
Resource Distribution - (Similar to timetabling) - which can sort out how limited resources should be utilised for maximum efficiency
Bin Packing - Which will make compression algorithms and sorting your favourite stuff into optical disks more efficient
TSP - Which can get the optimal route between a number of locations - the shipping/transport industry will love this
Protein Folding - Is also NP hard, which means that the biochemical and medical industry gets a significant boost
(etc)...
It'll also totally ruin cryptography.
"unsolvable with conventional computers"
They're not unsolvable, they're infeasible. There's an important difference.
You can solve TSP for 1 million cities if you're willing to wait a few billion years, but the fact that you're waiting a few billion years makes it infeasible.
It he's nerdy but he's a fucking serial killer that doesn't care too much about fashion or stupid musical groups, or his state of social presentation. He's fucking cool and he doesn't really give a shit about that stuff. I think that helps Apple to connect with a new audience.
95% of Serial Killers agree that Apple is the product for them.
And there's one actual virus on that list ... which, if you read the description, you'll see is a proof of concept. Wow, OS X is just as insecure as Windows!
Alcatraz has had a number of jailbreaks. My grandmother's white fence has had 0 jailbreaks. My grandmother's fence is more secure than Alcatraz!
Just because few people take advantage of such a system doesn't mean anything. Mac has a tendacy to pull out a large patch every few months or so - that's insecurity at its finest. Obviously if they had larger market share in this day and age, they'd be more viruses.
An MP4 movie is hardly the sort of thing you'd test a quad core with a demon of a video card though is it?
My 4 year old mobile phone can constantly loop an mp4 - granted the screen size is much smaller, but you're not going to buy a laptop like that to watch MP4s on it for 6.43 hours are you? You'll want to play something high-end, which will pull a ton of cycles on the cores and the GPU.
I don't think it'll even need to switch to the primacy GPU for the mp4 viewing experience ...
Well, I wouldn't call it a negative unless its replacing some other more important component (like giving it less USB drives or whatever), but if you have a socket which has nothing to plug in yet - and which Apple are pushing forward/banking that it becomes popular and doesn't bomb - then its pretty useless if it fails. Of course if you have unlimited space, no complaint - but I always get the idea that they removed a USB to shove it in or something.
Can't find a USB count in the article, may have missed it.
You forgot your "Fanboy" tags.
I find it so amazing how mac fanboys can turn every negative into a positive.
"Its not expensive, its just high quality"
"I'll compare it with a laptop which is half its price and point out that my laptop looks nicer"
Cheap as possible components? You mean like Intel chips? Oh right.
I'd say customer satisfaction on macs are higher simply because of the market they target. You're not buying a mac to play the latest games (which don't usually work very well on macs), you're not buying a mac for cheap and quick (you could get better with linux), you're buying a mac to show off the fact that you've got a mac and to feel smug in front of other people.
Of course the fact that all the hardware is chosen by mac and the large price tag means that its obvious that not everyone is going to buy one (that makes it special) and its 'guaranteed' to run on the hardware.
There's a difference between cheap and value, and its a thousand dollars extra or so. You can get a high end windows PC with similar specs for around 1200 instead.
I think I can see the actual web page. Its just there underneath the 15 toolbars which magically came out of nowhere.
Since iOS is closed source, are they simply black-box testing it? Because I'm sure that'll work wonders.
It says they're working with apple, but I'm pretty sure if there are outstanding bugs either apple doesn't know about them, or won't show them off and lose out on this project.
"Made using hemp....."
How long before teenagers start smoking their shoes?
Well, if you have people who pay for gold plated cables, you'll have people who pay for 'higher quality' music which makes no difference.
Would be funny if they say its 24 bit, change nothing and see how many people gab on about how they can hear much better.
Nope.
Non-techy users can still use Android marketplace. If you believe yourself to be a tech user and want to try something else, you can feel free to do so. But its your risk.
Also there are tons of other reasons why a closed up marketplace sucks. If you don't want to pay the 30% to apple and sell the product from your own website - tough luck! Amazon is planning their own app store - they can't do it with apple.
Deja Vu.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/08/1717232/Bloom-Laptop-Designed-For-Easy-Disassembly?from=rss
Oh right.
We at the National Phishing Association greatly support this suggestion.
Be sure not to download anything from a source you don't trust, because then you might get viruses, and then bad things can happen.
Its incredibly stupid when stuff like this happens, because its not really 'malware' in the sense of Android having a flaw which allows code to be executed, but rather idiots who expressly give this permission to this code to run, when they get it from a non-trusted source.
User Error. If Problem persists consult your user vendor.
These people sue the government for loss of access and libel?
Or is it just one of those oopsie moments which will never be resolved?
Clearly some sort of gingerbread cookie coated in honey
With everyone rooting their phone, and people actively looking for open flaws to let you root the phone - not to mention every update closes the root hole...
I'd say that its less secure because the user makes it that way.
Of course, I can make my android 100% secure by never running anything on it.
... iphones have been doing for years?
Tehehe
And nothing of value was lost.
This can't be the same Anonymous (off-shoot of 4chan) that thinks writing an aggressive Windows GUI ping program is "hacking"
I always thought it was the media who came up with that in order to try to explain to Neanderthals what a DDOS is.
Now I wonder who came up with "Hacktivism"
Lets look at the situation properly:
Anonymous is a group composed of [Members N], lead by [Leader L] of [belief X], who attempt to attack [Company Y] over [Reason Z].
Now, we know nothing about L or N. We don't know who took part in DDOSing mastercard (or who lead it), we don't know who hacked into the site (or who lead it), nor do we know their link to whoever DDOSed scientology, google bombed scientology, or protested in the streets. We don't know anything.
So assuming that N and L are variable. X changes with L.
So Anonymous isn't really a group. Its not a 'group of people which are now becoming a terrorist group'. Its an ever-changing grouping of different people by a different leader who chooses their target and their method. Do they have a master plan? Not really.
So viewing how anon changes is rather useless, since pretty much everything changes all the time.
This is the equivalent of looking at the human race at a whole and claiming that "The human race attacked Iraq, after attacking Poland in 1942, and Troy at some point in history" and trying to draw a conclusion.
Just leave it on the porn channel.
Problem solved.
That if you advertise or support a company, and are paid for by the company - you had to declare it?
This is an honest question...