Here in Germany I'm using PostBank (which is the post office bank service) They have a more or less fine web interface for paiments and so on.
When you make a new paiment, you have to look up a transaction number from a paper, physical list you have sent with the creation of your account alternatively you can signup for SMS tan, where they send the transaction number by SMS and you type it on the screen. A nice layer of security and all.
Now.. if a company gets my bank account number bank code, and name, they can also simply request the money. I don't even have to send or confirm the paiment myself. They can just serve themselves. A trojan for this bank would then just need to capture the said data and sent it upstream and take money per small amounts. Same with the credit card numbers, or just a paypal account.
except i CLEARLY gave disk as example since its the most common thing to be cached
caching a computation usually means simply keeping the result in a variable that you don't destroy if you're however talking php and stuff that's a pretty entirely different matter and actually solved efficiently by caching the entire page most of the time (did you read *most of the time* or you're too retarded?)
i think you will remain a second rate human until you read properly
Or, vista was simply a lot slower than XP, buggy, needed new drivers, and *only* on top of that the security features were not really thought out all that well for the end users. (hello big black screen every 30s asking for security clearance)
Mind you, they had years to transform vista into windows 7 and they did fix a zillion bugs and "slightly" modified the security annoyances.
Oh, shall I add that "Linux" (in fact, you mean most Linux based distros) "security features" aren't limited to "su and sudo", very far from that. And not only this, but Windows is far from limited to UAC, and actually had also many good security features in past versions (just not that good as in incomplete, but many lives on with Windows 7 and server equivalents)
Finally, when you click "ok" to admin rights on Windows 7 - guess what - you give the app full admin rights. It's actually quite similar to sudo in many (*not all*) ways. But then again, as I pointed out, both systems are not limited by these 2.. by quite far. From a user point of view, the difference is that in Windows the application is allowed to embed the request via an xml manifest so you don't need to do "run as"
I suggest a read on Linux DAC, capabilities bits, LSM, security models (Flask/SeLinux, RC/RSBAC, etc..), ASLR, PaX for starters. (and Window's ASLR, ACL's etc..)
the OS is doing the caching (including disk read/write) and its doing so more efficiently that you can with a user space process.,For most programs, you dont need to do this kind of caching yourself. For some, it might benefit and generally used.
most of the missing things in optimization are proper code, proper code path, and proper code design. (yeah ok, "proper code" sums it!)
if they're not going to use "3D" power then they're going to use another computational power. so using a 3d chip or not, you're going to use the same amount of battery with effect enabled.. in fact it wouldnt surprise me if the 3D version consumed less power, it depends on electronics.
oh, i suddenly get why most people are uninformed. time to look like we're all super compworld pros with numbers (doesn't matter what content we put,we're trusted!)
ive listened to the french information about tihs repeatedly and it all sound like it's bogus, cheap tries to incriminate Landis.
- they are unable to explain what has been "hacked" (its obvious that every of the guys interviewed have absolutely no idea what hacking is, let alone use a computer properly..) - they tell they are not at liberty to divulgate more info about it, but went to medias to pressure him - one dude said he has shown documents in court, that were proving the labs results were WRONG about him, but that getting those documents could be done only via hacking, so that it must be him and that is why there is a warrant for him. this dude been silenced since, because it implies they WERE ACTUALLY WRONG AND HE DID NOT CHEAT
the most likely explanation, is that Landis got the documents from a friendly source inside the lab, did not disclose the source, and got framed into fake hacking accusations. I have worked with the french govt enough to know this kind of shit happens often behind the curtains. Strangely, I left France.
So.. yes, it sounds terribly bogus to me. What a world we're living in...
yep and if the next x86 failed to deliver, would it make x86 a bad architecture? No, x86 is a success. PowerPC used to be also.
By the way, my memory isn't all that fresh, that's why I wrote G6, but i think it was to be called the G5e or plus or something like that, a G5 that sported higher frequency and lower consumption.. but after several delays it never happened.
I did not exclude the fact that IBM sold POWER before the "consumer oriented" PowerPC derivative, or the consoles either actually.. mostly because I made my points already I guess. It's still informative that you add them of course.
The PReP indeed failed, also. Not the PowerPC itself, tho.
I'll take this opportunity to remind ourselves of the might Motorola Mac clone, the StarMax 6000 and the 266 and 300mhz G3's. It was really ahead the competition, but never really got released (i suppose there's only a few in the whole world).
That was probably the last time Apple-related product made me "excited" technically. (yes, even if they killed the StarMax and others so that Apple could survive)
well for one, it was damn easier for them to just take an ipod touch, change to a big screen and call it ipad. and this is what it is, no irony, joke, or w/e else intended. ipod touch with a large screen and new name. Runs ipod touch apps and only that. On larger screen.
What if I just want to read a book, find something interesting, want to look it up on wikipedia, get back to reading.. oh, something else, look up again, etc ? Heck, I might want to paste the info to a friend quickly in a mail/sms/whatever as well.
That's multitasking. I don't wanna have to quit the app, start it again, load the page, etc. Waste of my time. I'd need 2 iPads. Waste of my money.
So quit your irrelevant SQL/foldingathome/What-not claims. No one is running that shit either on maemo or webos.
to me there's no such thing as netbook. who wants a tiny screen tiny keyboard and as much power as your cellphone just to check facebook, if you can have a slightly less tiny one, just as light and zillion times more powerfull that can do everything for the same price?
netbooks were there because they're cheap and let you do that right now.. but tomorrow, laptops will be quick and light enough to replace them. Or tablets if your an iPad fan.
I have a Panasonic CF-R3 since years. It's faster than any netbook. Its 10.4 inches, 990g, has vga out (which also output TV composite signal), 2 usb, sd, micro sd, 56K modem, ethernet, mic in, audio out, it can read any movie (up to 720p before being laggy), i can code on it, write documents, surf the web check email, and what not. Big hdd, lots of ram. A real computer. It's running XP and linux, both very, very well (actually, its running XP better atm, since the 855GM drivers are broken in Linux 2.6.30+)
I have also a tiny atom based netbook. It's much more recent, and costed only 1/4 as much (meaning, its still expensive since the R3 is from 2005..) It lags in XP. It lags in Linux. Can't read HD properly. can't program, write docs.. keyboard/screen too small and too many annoying lags. Can check facebook, slashdot, email.. that's it.
So once again, the R3 runs XP extremely well. Zero, zero perceived lag, I insist. Long battery runtime. Can watch youtube HD in 720p.
I'll push the comment to this end: - what about replacing the R3 by an iPad or similar? i lose the keyboard and connectivity. I lose the freedom. I lose compatibility with apps (i need special apps). I'm scared everytime i pack it, that the screen will break. (closing lid for the win..). i have less power, except for HD thx to the accelerated h264 hardware.
i get a nicer screen and touch.. and phone apps in exchange.
*Not worth it* I'd only ltake an ipad if it would cost $25 and i could throw 5 or 6 around the house, to read news and books, and never have to take the ipad around with me.
Disclaimer: - i did RTFA (it happens!) - i know Apple history - i'm not Apple fan and don't own any Apple product (anymore) actually
Anyways..
PowerPC:
PowerPC was not a failure. PowerPC's were sold by IBM in their POWER architectures and had quite a bit of success there as well. They were quick, worked well, and they allowed the transition for Apple. If apple went x86 back then, there might have been no apple today. The only "failure" would have been the G5, or in fact, the lack of G6. Undelivered promises of updates, for 2 years, and Apple had to switch to Intel.
MacOS 9: TFA is confusing MacOS 8 with Copland (MacOS 8 original codename). Copland was from-scratch operating system, with true preemptive multitasking and most of the things we're used to today. It took ages and never got completed (in fact, the failure here, was Copland). Apple released instead MacOS 8 and subsequent updates with partial features of Copland, but no rewrite. MacOS 9 was the last of the serie, nothing more, nothing less (MacOS 9.2.2). On top of that, it is the only MacOS that could run natively inside OSX. MacOS classic pionnered todays GUI.
20th anniversary Mac: exclusive, high priced item, for collectors.. that the author has mistaken for a consumer level product. don't really need to say more. (actually ill quote: "the issue here is not the product but that it was released during a financial crisis" then "i know the financial crisis was not related to the 20th mac".. yeah well keep on contradicting yourself just to add 1 product to the list")
The point of passing these laws is not to take care of child porn, only to have more control over the internet. In fact, one could say, child porn is not relevant here. It's just an argument used to pass the law in, as the other reasons would cause people to refuse the law.
If you refuse a law that is "against child porn", they will ask you, "so you are for child porn"? and start spamming you about how their law will protect childrens, so that your arguments are left unheard, at best you'll be remembered as a "pro child porn" cause that's what media will find as subject that "shock" the people and thus given them view and moneys (which isn't really good uh)
human control, easy as 123. :
In Slashdot language:
1 - propose a freedom-killing law, mentioning it's for the children's best interest 2 - report anyone complaining as child molester, child porn addict 3 - ??? 4 - profit of your control over the population
I know lazy developers who copy paste their own code all around instead of making small short blocks that are reused.
debugging is as easy at start.. then it becomes bloat, but at this point it's not their problem anymore.
and those developers suck. especially when you're the one dealing with their code (Already rewrote company products from scratch for this reason. gained 90% size, functionality (since its easier to add), reuseability.... but their code was as debuggable and arguybly as quick otherwise)
in fact, the code was like 500 000 lines and my code is like 50 000 lines:/
It's so much easier to believe successful people must cheat then to accept the truth that there are people out there that are actually smarter, more motivated, and more clever. I've known a few people who are multi-millionaire's... and they are all far more talented in those categories than I am.
My ego is small enough that I can accept that I'll never be able to match their talents, nor do I want to work that hard to be that successful.
Actually, I find it easier to believe that successfull people are just better. I wish it is true. I believe it is true, most of the time. Except when I actually get to know a succesful one, and figure out that while they're smart AND hard working, they cheated their way there. (you actually have to be smart to cheat your way.. not very surprising isnt it?) Then I get to know another, same story.. and so on.
Of the ones I know, which are known to be smart and hard working people, they would have given up if they didn't cheat. tells a lot, doesn't it.
it took a week for the admins of the university to figure out the trick (tells a lot about their abilities or the lack thereof - i bet they were cheaters too lol), thus they lost a week of time, claiming it to be the reason why I had to leave or face trial.
I am sure today we would have been sued and the morons would have won since we "hacked" their accounts.
That's funny you actually mention that! approx 8 years ago, I was at university. We did have internet and decent computers. I did the same kind of trick as you did. My trick wasn't as bad, I only made my program modify their login scripts so that they wouldn't be able to login anymore (it would ask the password in loop via a fake login program, always denying them access). No data deleted.
One single guy got caught, it was funny, except that everyone knew if someone was able to do this at the time, it was me. Thus they inspected my code, and my account, and shortly I had to see the director of the university. I was asked to leave the university for "hacking" and that there would be no repercusions on my scholarity. If I had chosen to ignore and try to stay, I would have to deal with a trial instead.
I left this university and went into a smaller school instead. yep it kinda sucks i suppose. Nevertheless.. the guy never got punished for cheating. Best part of the story I guess.
I'll mention this university was in the French riviera.
a big difference is that microsoft makes most of windows upwards compatible, or if you prefer, most recent windows versions are backward compatible in macosx, apple deprecate and supress funtionality, so you need both code path in your code, which is complex, leads to larger size, bugs, etc etc.
thus for a developer, its much more interesting to remove the extra code for osx than it is for windows
yeah but its still a nice move. it means we'll be able to hack our old phones and that rocks pretty much. not only that but they've been quicker than announced by a loooooong margin
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Here in Germany I'm using PostBank (which is the post office bank service)
They have a more or less fine web interface for paiments and so on.
When you make a new paiment, you have to look up a transaction number from a paper, physical list you have sent with the creation of your account
alternatively you can signup for SMS tan, where they send the transaction number by SMS and you type it on the screen.
A nice layer of security and all.
Now.. if a company gets my bank account number bank code, and name, they can also simply request the money. I don't even have to send or confirm the paiment myself. They can just serve themselves. A trojan for this bank would then just need to capture the said data and sent it upstream and take money per small amounts. Same with the credit card numbers, or just a paypal account.
As usual, the weakest link wins.
except i CLEARLY gave disk as example since its the most common thing to be cached
caching a computation usually means simply keeping the result in a variable that you don't destroy
if you're however talking php and stuff that's a pretty entirely different matter and actually solved efficiently by caching the entire page most of the time (did you read *most of the time* or you're too retarded?)
i think you will remain a second rate human until you read properly
Or, vista was simply a lot slower than XP, buggy, needed new drivers, and *only* on top of that the security features were not really thought out all that well for the end users. (hello big black screen every 30s asking for security clearance)
Mind you, they had years to transform vista into windows 7 and they did fix a zillion bugs and "slightly" modified the security annoyances.
Oh, shall I add that "Linux" (in fact, you mean most Linux based distros) "security features" aren't limited to "su and sudo", very far from that. And not only this, but Windows is far from limited to UAC, and actually had also many good security features in past versions (just not that good as in incomplete, but many lives on with Windows 7 and server equivalents)
Finally, when you click "ok" to admin rights on Windows 7 - guess what - you give the app full admin rights. It's actually quite similar to sudo in many (*not all*) ways. But then again, as I pointed out, both systems are not limited by these 2.. by quite far. From a user point of view, the difference is that in Windows the application is allowed to embed the request via an xml manifest so you don't need to do "run as"
I suggest a read on Linux DAC, capabilities bits, LSM, security models (Flask/SeLinux, RC/RSBAC, etc..), ASLR, PaX for starters. (and Window's ASLR, ACL's etc..)
the OS is doing the caching (including disk read/write) and its doing so more efficiently that you can with a user space process.,For most programs, you dont need to do this kind of caching yourself.
For some, it might benefit and generally used.
most of the missing things in optimization are proper code, proper code path, and proper code design. (yeah ok, "proper code" sums it!)
if they're not going to use "3D" power then they're going to use another computational power.
so using a 3d chip or not, you're going to use the same amount of battery with effect enabled.. in fact it wouldnt surprise me if the 3D version consumed less power, it depends on electronics.
oh, i suddenly get why most people are uninformed. time to look like we're all super compworld pros with numbers (doesn't matter what content we put,we're trusted!)
ive listened to the french information about tihs repeatedly and it all sound like it's bogus, cheap tries to incriminate Landis.
- they are unable to explain what has been "hacked" (its obvious that every of the guys interviewed have absolutely no idea what hacking is, let alone use a computer properly..)
- they tell they are not at liberty to divulgate more info about it, but went to medias to pressure him
- one dude said he has shown documents in court, that were proving the labs results were WRONG about him, but that getting those documents could be done only via hacking, so that it must be him and that is why there is a warrant for him. this dude been silenced since, because it implies they WERE ACTUALLY WRONG AND HE DID NOT CHEAT
the most likely explanation, is that Landis got the documents from a friendly source inside the lab, did not disclose the source, and got framed into fake hacking accusations.
I have worked with the french govt enough to know this kind of shit happens often behind the curtains. Strangely, I left France.
So.. yes, it sounds terribly bogus to me. What a world we're living in...
yep and if the next x86 failed to deliver, would it make x86 a bad architecture? No, x86 is a success.
PowerPC used to be also.
By the way, my memory isn't all that fresh, that's why I wrote G6, but i think it was to be called the G5e or plus or something like that, a G5 that sported higher frequency and lower consumption.. but after several delays it never happened.
I did not exclude the fact that IBM sold POWER before the "consumer oriented" PowerPC derivative, or the consoles either actually.. mostly because I made my points already I guess. It's still informative that you add them of course.
The PReP indeed failed, also. Not the PowerPC itself, tho.
I'll take this opportunity to remind ourselves of the might Motorola Mac clone, the StarMax 6000 and the 266 and 300mhz G3's. It was really ahead the competition, but never really got released (i suppose there's only a few in the whole world).
That was probably the last time Apple-related product made me "excited" technically. (yes, even if they killed the StarMax and others so that Apple could survive)
i bet if x86 was replaced tomorrow they'd have put it in as terrible choice, lol
well for one, it was damn easier for them to just take an ipod touch, change to a big screen and call it ipad.
and this is what it is, no irony, joke, or w/e else intended. ipod touch with a large screen and new name.
Runs ipod touch apps and only that. On larger screen.
What if I just want to read a book, find something interesting, want to look it up on wikipedia, get back to reading.. oh, something else, look up again, etc ? Heck, I might want to paste the info to a friend quickly in a mail/sms/whatever as well.
That's multitasking. I don't wanna have to quit the app, start it again, load the page, etc. Waste of my time. I'd need 2 iPads. Waste of my money.
So quit your irrelevant SQL/foldingathome/What-not claims. No one is running that shit either on maemo or webos.
to me there's no such thing as netbook.
who wants a tiny screen tiny keyboard and as much power as your cellphone just to check facebook, if you can have a slightly less tiny one, just as light and zillion times more powerfull that can do everything for the same price?
netbooks were there because they're cheap and let you do that right now.. but tomorrow, laptops will be quick and light enough to replace them. Or tablets if your an iPad fan.
I have a Panasonic CF-R3 since years. It's faster than any netbook. Its 10.4 inches, 990g, has vga out (which also output TV composite signal), 2 usb, sd, micro sd, 56K modem, ethernet, mic in, audio out, it can read any movie (up to 720p before being laggy), i can code on it, write documents, surf the web check email, and what not. Big hdd, lots of ram. A real computer. It's running XP and linux, both very, very well (actually, its running XP better atm, since the 855GM drivers are broken in Linux 2.6.30+)
I have also a tiny atom based netbook. It's much more recent, and costed only 1/4 as much (meaning, its still expensive since the R3 is from 2005..)
It lags in XP. It lags in Linux. Can't read HD properly. can't program, write docs.. keyboard/screen too small and too many annoying lags.
Can check facebook, slashdot, email.. that's it.
So once again, the R3 runs XP extremely well. Zero, zero perceived lag, I insist. Long battery runtime. Can watch youtube HD in 720p.
I'll push the comment to this end:
- what about replacing the R3 by an iPad or similar?
i lose the keyboard and connectivity. I lose the freedom. I lose compatibility with apps (i need special apps). I'm scared everytime i pack it, that the screen will break. (closing lid for the win..). i have less power, except for HD thx to the accelerated h264 hardware.
i get a nicer screen and touch.. and phone apps in exchange.
*Not worth it* I'd only ltake an ipad if it would cost $25 and i could throw 5 or 6 around the house, to read news and books, and never have to take the ipad around with me.
and if there was an edit button i'd write "mod" not "mode".
if i had comments points i'd mode this funny not troll :p
Disclaimer:
- i did RTFA (it happens!)
- i know Apple history
- i'm not Apple fan and don't own any Apple product (anymore) actually
Anyways..
PowerPC:
PowerPC was not a failure. PowerPC's were sold by IBM in their POWER architectures and had quite a bit of success there as well. They were quick, worked well, and they allowed the transition for Apple. If apple went x86 back then, there might have been no apple today. The only "failure" would have been the G5, or in fact, the lack of G6.
Undelivered promises of updates, for 2 years, and Apple had to switch to Intel.
MacOS 9:
TFA is confusing MacOS 8 with Copland (MacOS 8 original codename).
Copland was from-scratch operating system, with true preemptive multitasking and most of the things we're used to today.
It took ages and never got completed (in fact, the failure here, was Copland).
Apple released instead MacOS 8 and subsequent updates with partial features of Copland, but no rewrite. MacOS 9 was the last of the serie, nothing more, nothing less (MacOS 9.2.2). On top of that, it is the only MacOS that could run natively inside OSX. MacOS classic pionnered todays GUI.
20th anniversary Mac:
exclusive, high priced item, for collectors.. that the author has mistaken for a consumer level product. don't really need to say more. (actually ill quote: "the issue here is not the product but that it was released during a financial crisis" then "i know the financial crisis was not related to the 20th mac".. yeah well keep on contradicting yourself just to add 1 product to the list")
The point of passing these laws is not to take care of child porn, only to have more control over the internet. In fact, one could say, child porn is not relevant here.
It's just an argument used to pass the law in, as the other reasons would cause people to refuse the law.
If you refuse a law that is "against child porn", they will ask you, "so you are for child porn"? and start spamming you about how their law will protect childrens, so that your arguments are left unheard, at best you'll be remembered as a "pro child porn" cause that's what media will find as subject that "shock" the people and thus given them view and moneys (which isn't really good uh)
human control, easy as 123. :
In Slashdot language:
1 - propose a freedom-killing law, mentioning it's for the children's best interest
2 - report anyone complaining as child molester, child porn addict
3 - ???
4 - profit of your control over the population
I know lazy developers who copy paste their own code all around instead of making small short blocks that are reused.
debugging is as easy at start.. then it becomes bloat, but at this point it's not their problem anymore.
and those developers suck. especially when you're the one dealing with their code (Already rewrote company products from scratch for this reason. gained 90% size, functionality (since its easier to add), reuseability .... but their code was as debuggable and arguybly as quick otherwise)
in fact, the code was like 500 000 lines and my code is like 50 000 lines :/
(yes, it took ages)
but.. how do you define a Slashdot cheater?
A - someone who reads slashdot and RTFA
Thus, having an unfair advantage over the other posters
or
B - someone who reads slashdot and do NOT read RTFA
Thus, doing like he knows what he's talking about
Seriously?!
It's so much easier to believe successful people must cheat then to accept the truth that there are people out there that are actually smarter, more motivated, and more clever. I've known a few people who are multi-millionaire's ... and they are all far more talented in those categories than I am.
My ego is small enough that I can accept that I'll never be able to match their talents, nor do I want to work that hard to be that successful.
Actually, I find it easier to believe that successfull people are just better. I wish it is true. I believe it is true, most of the time.
Except when I actually get to know a succesful one, and figure out that while they're smart AND hard working, they cheated their way there. (you actually have to be smart to cheat your way.. not very surprising isnt it?)
Then I get to know another, same story.. and so on.
Of the ones I know, which are known to be smart and hard working people, they would have given up if they didn't cheat. tells a lot, doesn't it.
I forgot probably a small bit of the story:
it took a week for the admins of the university to figure out the trick (tells a lot about their abilities or the lack thereof - i bet they were cheaters too lol), thus they lost a week of time, claiming it to be the reason why I had to leave or face trial.
I am sure today we would have been sued and the morons would have won since we "hacked" their accounts.
That's funny you actually mention that!
approx 8 years ago, I was at university. We did have internet and decent computers. I did the same kind of trick as you did.
My trick wasn't as bad, I only made my program modify their login scripts so that they wouldn't be able to login anymore (it would ask the password in loop via a fake login program, always denying them access). No data deleted.
One single guy got caught, it was funny, except that everyone knew if someone was able to do this at the time, it was me. Thus they inspected my code, and my account, and shortly I had to see the director of the university. I was asked to leave the university for "hacking" and that there would be no repercusions on my scholarity. If I had chosen to ignore and try to stay, I would have to deal with a trial instead.
I left this university and went into a smaller school instead. yep it kinda sucks i suppose. Nevertheless.. the guy never got punished for cheating. Best part of the story I guess.
I'll mention this university was in the French riviera.
a big difference is that microsoft makes most of windows upwards compatible, or if you prefer, most recent windows versions are backward compatible
in macosx, apple deprecate and supress funtionality, so you need both code path in your code, which is complex, leads to larger size, bugs, etc etc.
thus for a developer, its much more interesting to remove the extra code for osx than it is for windows
yeah but its still a nice move. it means we'll be able to hack our old phones and that rocks pretty much.
not only that but they've been quicker than announced by a loooooong margin
apt.exe, right?