that's because a ds wouldn't benefit from FP math, it is just displaying on an integer-based display (LCD), so the FP math would just lead to rounding errors and graphics not matching up.
Graphics can be implemented as FP math, but really if I am going to be drawing at point ( 5, 25) why should I need the resolution of point ( 5.25678, 25.9635)????
In my opinion graphics like that should always be integer based math, as it would be faster and as you pointed out @walshy007, you wouldn't need an FPU
Yeah, the cloud service is only for backups, not the only copy of your data.
If you only have 1 copy of a file and you don't own the hardware it is on, then it is only a matter of time until you loose your data and obviously it wasn't that important to you.
Oh and the reason no one has NAS devices is that they charge up the wahzoo for one of them and most of the time you can get a simple barebones servers for less with more room for drives and more options down the road.
I've never seen a WSYWYG editor that didn't generate tons of garbage HTML for every move you made. That alone makes them not worth it.
I agree with you here, I remember when I played around with it and looked at the code behind what I was doing... I was appalled to say the least when I saw the code that got generated for doing simple text placement. Now it has been a long time since I've looked at it, but I imagine it will be similar.
So with that being said..... here comes your old friend..... who is it?!?!?!.......GOOGLE
OMG, thank you!!!! I have been thinking the same thing as all of these companies started to sue each other over whatever they can think of (OK, well Apple is leading the pack on that one)
I believe they are stifling competition because no one is allowed to have products that look anything remotely resembling Apple's. Now I do agree they are sexy designs(as always), but at what point can you sue over such things.
My TV looks like just about every other TV, but you don't see TV companies suing each other. (or do you, and I'm just misinformed?)
I mean, how much different can you get, before you provide an inferior product or experience?!? Which no one will buy and no one will like and continue to use.
Whoa whoa whoa, first off, IBM did this years before Obama spent all the money on companies which the people needed to exist or they would totally rely on the government for money and help. This of course after his predecessor cut taxes on the rich, made banks give loans to people who couldn't pay them off, oh and that little "war" we had over in the Middle East, which we are still in even if we aren't in Iraq some what, 10 years later? China only owns us on paper, and what are they gunna do about it
I have to ask, are you a hipster Strat? You have that I like it, but only if I'm the only one that likes it
I think IBM did this so they would get kickbacks from the corrupt Chinese government. It's in the article and in the blurb: "I.B.M. enhanced its stature in the lucrative Chinese market, where the government still steers business."
How many ways can you come up with phone dimensions that people will buy, and they find ergonomic. I mean I can understand Apple doesn't want their patents to be blatantly ripped off, but at the same time, I believe they have to roll with it, which they seem to be unable to do.
Dark blue isn't as sexy as black, and I bet Apple would of went after them just to corner the market and put shame on the company so more people buy the iPad.
How can you have a very large percentage of the tablet market (def. over 50%, maybe even 80% of the market) and still go after the under-dogs?
The other companies are trying to compete and Apple has the right design and gestures. I mean you can't patent the mouse or the cursor and then say, hey you have a mouse I'm going to sue you because I had it first. IP patents are terrible terrible things and we should of never allowed these ideas to be patented.
Dual projectors that are hooked up to the teacher's(your) computer, or a overhead projector of sorts, and a lot of those desks that can hold an entire computer system ( monitors on arms that hide inside the desk, drawer under for keyboard and mouse, and a little platform for the actual tower). This makes it easy to see if people are cheating (if they can't use the computers on a test) because it is obvious that the monitor is up and out.
It's like images back in the day when everyone had dial-up, it took you a minute to download a few KB image file, now with faster internet, it takes the same amount of time, however you are now downloading a few MB image file, because as the bandwidth of the average person increased so did the resolutions and sizes of other things.
I mean did anyone download a 1080p image back in early 2000s??!? Probably not, but now everyone wants 1080p desktop backgrounds and whatnot. It is simply companies providing a better experience to their web site, as the average person advances in tech so does the web page
Standards which were put there in the first place to make things uniform and improve interoperability. The fact remains, however, that this interoperability is not uniform: any sufficiently complex environment will require very specific versions of specific software. (Anyone have to deal with sites/applications which -still- require IE6 or IE7, for instance?)
So true!!!
I also believe this will make the IT people spend more time on getting some CEOs iPad to play Bloons at work then to make the servers work efficiently and effectively.
Or why doesn't my iPad/Android/Whatever have X program or have Y plugin... it just makes IT professionals' jobs harder, and frankly not what they should be spending their time on.
Then of course there is gunna be, this device doesn't work, fix it... I'm sorry I don't work for Apple, Samsung, or whoever you made your device, but I did go to school for Windows, I can help you with that....
"The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination would have offered an interim solution to this spectrum shortage. In the absence of such steps, customers will be harmed and needed investment will be stifled"
So does this mean AT&T just gave themselves a reason to increase cellphone plans???
Well 160 characters per text message, assuming ASCII = 160 * 1byte + Overhead = ~160 bytes + overhead
If we only use a subset or non-standard set of ASCII you could potentially compress to 2 characters per byte so = 160 * 0.5 + overhead = ~80 bytes + overhead
Non-US customers with more extensive languages would be 2 bytes per character (UNICODE) = 160 * 2 + overhead = ~320 bytes + overhead
So for 1 text message, he is right, bytes, but for a lot of text message lets say 1000 per billing cycle:
best case (Compressed ASCII) = ~78kilobytes + (overhead * 1000)
worst case (UNICODE)= ~312.5kilobytes + ( overhead * 1000 )
other case = ~156kilobytes + (overhead * 1000)
You tell me, kilobytes? Nothing compared to data plans though.
I am not affiliated with ANY wireless company, just someone that can do math.
We still have to trust the person we gave a password to, so that they can access the plaintext information in the first place, and as you probably know, they are the worst with securing passwords and are probably using computers that are not secure (not up-to-date, has malware/virus on their machine). =(
Plus you now have to (in some cases) re-write your tables to make up for the limitations of CryptDB: they referred to storing dates as separate fields quite a few times in their PDF(if comparing dates is important to your DB); add more hard drives: storing the now inflated DB because of keys, and encrypted data > plaintext data; and possibly servers to make up for the increased complexity of getting data out of that DB: we now have an unknown number of encryption layers as well as encryption schemes to decrypt each time, as well as encrypting any information we add back to the DB, and then securing it all up again(wrapping up the onion).
So for the cloud, this means giving Amazon or whoever you are using to host your information a lot more $$$$$$$$... It solves a lot of problems but we still have that at least one person who holds the key, and who we must trust implicitly... hope they don't get fired...
I'm with you cayenne8! Why pay for something that you may not need to pay for.
Also install DynDns on the server so you can always go to you server without remembering your ip address( God when I found this service I was ecstatic, no more remember IP Addresses!!!).
If you are unfamiliar with DynDns it just makes a Dns record for you on their server so when you point your ssh client or browser to yourWebServer.dyndns.org it resolves to your public ip address ex: 170.99.99.123 or whatever you are so you can access your files.
Plus is you use apache you can create a sweet web interface to your server and amaze all of your friends!
I can't believe companies aren't held responsible for their (lack of) actions as it regards security!!! It makes me mad!!!!
It seems like we just make the people that find and exploit the security hole as the bad guys, even though it was the companies fault in the first place for having the security hold! We are in a cyber world now, and web security should be a higher priority, especially if you save personal information(credit card numbers comes to mind).
Now maybe LulzSec and Anonymous aren't going about this the right way, but at least they are pointing at companies and saying, "Hey this is a huge security hole, fix that sh!t!!"
You would think these companies would care about our information, but they don't. All they care about is if we don't put extra security in our web site, the CEO gets a bonus, or the dev teams gets a bonus for completing it before schedule(even if the product isn't full ready)
And why are we taking this?? Why aren't we like, hey wait, why didn't this company protect our information, they collected it, told us it would be safe and it isn't. We need a public outcry (greater then Anonymous themselves), that will wake companies up and make them do more. Or make it a law that it is the companies' fault that the information was stolen, and possibly make them pay us for our pain and suffering, as well as fix the problem!!!!!!!!
They are trying to get into the mobile market with Windows 8, so I'm not surprised they are trying to release it ASAP. They want all the tablet manufacturers to be like, oohhhh Windows on a tablet, and it's UI isn't total crap on a touchscreen (the new home interface is suppose to be really nice for touchscreens).
Windows 8 will also have the metro apps, which I assume they will try to get developers to think about touchscreen devices (huge buttons, simple UI, gestures) more.
They are also going to port it to ARM, so that they can get into embedded devices too (tablets, smartphones, etc.).
Tablets could be x86 or ARM, and as you can see ARM is currently winning (iPad/2 anyone?)
Clearly they are too busy coding up new vulnerabilities to have the time for fixes...
HAHAHAHA, I wouldn't be surprised, they would have the latest zero-days (presumably because they put them there), would know all the ones Adobe does know about, and those they don't, and why would they want to fix them until the new year, their old zero-days are still working!
Oh and I love your sig!!!!!! It's one of those that you are like: Nooo.... well...... mayb.... no couldn't be.... or could it....
I don't know if you have this problem or not but I have Fios and I can't even watch 1080p movies or shows... I mean I just got an HDTV because we were suppose to switch over to all digital HD content and they aren't even giving me the top standard, lame! (Best I get is 1080i)
Not only are SSD prices going down, but traditional hard drives are going UP! (At least for the short term)
Prices taken from Newegg.com:
Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB is $399.99 (used to be a lot cheaper)
Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA III:
About a year ago: On sale for $60, regular $70
Now: $149.99
I think now is the time of the SSD and the hybrid drive is just not worth the price
And considering this drive is retailed at $239.99 and a regular mechanical 750GB drive is between $69.99(Hitachi Deskstar) and $179.99(Western Digital Black) there is no reason to buy it.
Just go buy a small SSD and a regular mechanical drive and do it manually
Dont you think that these type of systems should NOT be hooked up to the internet and that putting them on the internet is just asking for sh*t to go wrong?
If they really need to be networked with other computers maybe they should invest in their own fiber cables, I mean aren't there plenty of dark fiber for them to buy
And what about locking down the computers themselves, I believe Stuxnet and the Wikileaks deals were because you can just plug a flash drive in and hit copy, who thought that was a good idea to allow???
Sounds like another left hand not talking to the right hand to me
And more to the question posted, don't you think a strike against a cyber-attacker is a little overboard? I mean isn't it like trying to shoot a mosquito with a shotgun, a little overkill and unwarranted don't you think?
For that matter what is a justifiable punishment for that type of crime? A counter cyber-attack, extradition(if we can, depending on where the attack originated from) for prosecution?
Then you have to think about whether it was a country or an individual that has committed the crime, does a town need to get attacked or 1 house? And for that matter he didn't have a gun so using a gun seems like a little much.
Whoever comes up with the answer must make sure that it is a justifiable one and that we aren't just being the world police like always.
Nice response I totally agree... however I totally agree with others that Access is a pretty poor database but it works on the small-ish scale. (Although I do know of an IT company that uses it for their ticketing system... I know, I know you would think they know better, but they are IT pros not programmers and it works for them)
If you have the skills I like the suggestions by others of: MySQL and/or a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) server for a web-based database program(although it seems a lot more complex then what you already have in place).
I also like your basic aggregation questions, if these are accurate questions you need answered then Access can do them as Anon said above.
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that's because a ds wouldn't benefit from FP math, it is just displaying on an integer-based display (LCD), so the FP math would just lead to rounding errors and graphics not matching up.
Graphics can be implemented as FP math, but really if I am going to be drawing at point ( 5, 25) why should I need the resolution of point ( 5.25678, 25.9635)????
In my opinion graphics like that should always be integer based math, as it would be faster and as you pointed out @walshy007, you wouldn't need an FPU
Yeah, the cloud service is only for backups, not the only copy of your data.
If you only have 1 copy of a file and you don't own the hardware it is on, then it is only a matter of time until you loose your data and obviously it wasn't that important to you.
Oh and the reason no one has NAS devices is that they charge up the wahzoo for one of them and most of the time you can get a simple barebones servers for less with more room for drives and more options down the road.
I've never seen a WSYWYG editor that didn't generate tons of garbage HTML for every move you made. That alone makes them not worth it.
I agree with you here, I remember when I played around with it and looked at the code behind what I was doing... I was appalled to say the least when I saw the code that got generated for doing simple text placement. Now it has been a long time since I've looked at it, but I imagine it will be similar.
So with that being said..... here comes your old friend..... who is it?!?!?! .......GOOGLE
That's neither a valid reason... remember the PS3?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH =D Ahhh.... and we all got screwed for it.... what happened with that lawsuit again?!?! Oh yeah... nothing...
OMG, thank you!!!! I have been thinking the same thing as all of these companies started to sue each other over whatever they can think of (OK, well Apple is leading the pack on that one)
I believe they are stifling competition because no one is allowed to have products that look anything remotely resembling Apple's. Now I do agree they are sexy designs(as always), but at what point can you sue over such things.
My TV looks like just about every other TV, but you don't see TV companies suing each other. (or do you, and I'm just misinformed?)
I mean, how much different can you get, before you provide an inferior product or experience?!? Which no one will buy and no one will like and continue to use.
Whoa whoa whoa, first off, IBM did this years before Obama spent all the money on companies which the people needed to exist or they would totally rely on the government for money and help. This of course after his predecessor cut taxes on the rich, made banks give loans to people who couldn't pay them off, oh and that little "war" we had over in the Middle East, which we are still in even if we aren't in Iraq some what, 10 years later? China only owns us on paper, and what are they gunna do about it
I have to ask, are you a hipster Strat? You have that I like it, but only if I'm the only one that likes it
I think IBM did this so they would get kickbacks from the corrupt Chinese government. It's in the article and in the blurb: "I.B.M. enhanced its stature in the lucrative Chinese market, where the government still steers business."
How many ways can you come up with phone dimensions that people will buy, and they find ergonomic. I mean I can understand Apple doesn't want their patents to be blatantly ripped off, but at the same time, I believe they have to roll with it, which they seem to be unable to do. Dark blue isn't as sexy as black, and I bet Apple would of went after them just to corner the market and put shame on the company so more people buy the iPad. How can you have a very large percentage of the tablet market (def. over 50%, maybe even 80% of the market) and still go after the under-dogs? The other companies are trying to compete and Apple has the right design and gestures. I mean you can't patent the mouse or the cursor and then say, hey you have a mouse I'm going to sue you because I had it first. IP patents are terrible terrible things and we should of never allowed these ideas to be patented.
Dual projectors that are hooked up to the teacher's(your) computer, or a overhead projector of sorts, and a lot of those desks that can hold an entire computer system ( monitors on arms that hide inside the desk, drawer under for keyboard and mouse, and a little platform for the actual tower). This makes it easy to see if people are cheating (if they can't use the computers on a test) because it is obvious that the monitor is up and out.
It's like images back in the day when everyone had dial-up, it took you a minute to download a few KB image file, now with faster internet, it takes the same amount of time, however you are now downloading a few MB image file, because as the bandwidth of the average person increased so did the resolutions and sizes of other things.
I mean did anyone download a 1080p image back in early 2000s??!? Probably not, but now everyone wants 1080p desktop backgrounds and whatnot. It is simply companies providing a better experience to their web site, as the average person advances in tech so does the web page
I can see MS trying to get RIM so that they can add Windows Phones to it, because well.... Windows Phones suck
Oh boy.... I'm going to hell
Standards which were put there in the first place to make things uniform and improve interoperability. The fact remains, however, that this interoperability is not uniform: any sufficiently complex environment will require very specific versions of specific software. (Anyone have to deal with sites/applications which -still- require IE6 or IE7, for instance?)
So true!!!
I also believe this will make the IT people spend more time on getting some CEOs iPad to play Bloons at work then to make the servers work efficiently and effectively.
Or why doesn't my iPad/Android/Whatever have X program or have Y plugin... it just makes IT professionals' jobs harder, and frankly not what they should be spending their time on.
Then of course there is gunna be, this device doesn't work, fix it... I'm sorry I don't work for Apple, Samsung, or whoever you made your device, but I did go to school for Windows, I can help you with that....
"The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination would have offered an interim solution to this spectrum shortage. In the absence of such steps, customers will be harmed and needed investment will be stifled"
So does this mean AT&T just gave themselves a reason to increase cellphone plans???
Well 160 characters per text message, assuming ASCII = 160 * 1byte + Overhead = ~160 bytes + overhead
If we only use a subset or non-standard set of ASCII you could potentially compress to 2 characters per byte so = 160 * 0.5 + overhead = ~80 bytes + overhead
Non-US customers with more extensive languages would be 2 bytes per character (UNICODE) = 160 * 2 + overhead = ~320 bytes + overhead
So for 1 text message, he is right, bytes, but for a lot of text message lets say 1000 per billing cycle:
best case (Compressed ASCII) = ~78kilobytes + (overhead * 1000)
worst case (UNICODE)= ~312.5kilobytes + ( overhead * 1000 )
other case = ~156kilobytes + (overhead * 1000)
You tell me, kilobytes? Nothing compared to data plans though.
I am not affiliated with ANY wireless company, just someone that can do math.
We still have to trust the person we gave a password to, so that they can access the plaintext information in the first place, and as you probably know, they are the worst with securing passwords and are probably using computers that are not secure (not up-to-date, has malware/virus on their machine). =(
Plus you now have to (in some cases) re-write your tables to make up for the limitations of CryptDB: they referred to storing dates as separate fields quite a few times in their PDF(if comparing dates is important to your DB); add more hard drives: storing the now inflated DB because of keys, and encrypted data > plaintext data; and possibly servers to make up for the increased complexity of getting data out of that DB: we now have an unknown number of encryption layers as well as encryption schemes to decrypt each time, as well as encrypting any information we add back to the DB, and then securing it all up again(wrapping up the onion).
So for the cloud, this means giving Amazon or whoever you are using to host your information a lot more $$$$$$$$... It solves a lot of problems but we still have that at least one person who holds the key, and who we must trust implicitly... hope they don't get fired...
Just my 2 cents, but it doesn't mean much
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I'm with you cayenne8! Why pay for something that you may not need to pay for.
Also install DynDns on the server so you can always go to you server without remembering your ip address( God when I found this service I was ecstatic, no more remember IP Addresses!!!).
If you are unfamiliar with DynDns it just makes a Dns record for you on their server so when you point your ssh client or browser to yourWebServer.dyndns.org it resolves to your public ip address ex: 170.99.99.123 or whatever you are so you can access your files.
Plus is you use apache you can create a sweet web interface to your server and amaze all of your friends!
THANK YOU!!!
I can't believe companies aren't held responsible for their (lack of) actions as it regards security!!! It makes me mad!!!!
It seems like we just make the people that find and exploit the security hole as the bad guys, even though it was the companies fault in the first place for having the security hold! We are in a cyber world now, and web security should be a higher priority, especially if you save personal information(credit card numbers comes to mind).
Now maybe LulzSec and Anonymous aren't going about this the right way, but at least they are pointing at companies and saying, "Hey this is a huge security hole, fix that sh!t!!"
You would think these companies would care about our information, but they don't. All they care about is if we don't put extra security in our web site, the CEO gets a bonus, or the dev teams gets a bonus for completing it before schedule(even if the product isn't full ready)
And why are we taking this?? Why aren't we like, hey wait, why didn't this company protect our information, they collected it, told us it would be safe and it isn't. We need a public outcry (greater then Anonymous themselves), that will wake companies up and make them do more. Or make it a law that it is the companies' fault that the information was stolen, and possibly make them pay us for our pain and suffering, as well as fix the problem!!!!!!!!
They are trying to get into the mobile market with Windows 8, so I'm not surprised they are trying to release it ASAP. They want all the tablet manufacturers to be like, oohhhh Windows on a tablet, and it's UI isn't total crap on a touchscreen (the new home interface is suppose to be really nice for touchscreens).
Windows 8 will also have the metro apps, which I assume they will try to get developers to think about touchscreen devices (huge buttons, simple UI, gestures) more.
They are also going to port it to ARM, so that they can get into embedded devices too (tablets, smartphones, etc.).
Tablets could be x86 or ARM, and as you can see ARM is currently winning (iPad/2 anyone?)
Clearly they are too busy coding up new vulnerabilities to have the time for fixes...
HAHAHAHA, I wouldn't be surprised, they would have the latest zero-days (presumably because they put them there), would know all the ones Adobe does know about, and those they don't, and why would they want to fix them until the new year, their old zero-days are still working!
Oh and I love your sig!!!!!! It's one of those that you are like: Nooo.... well...... mayb.... no couldn't be.... or could it....
Hire me to come in and help you out!
I don't know if you have this problem or not but I have Fios and I can't even watch 1080p movies or shows... I mean I just got an HDTV because we were suppose to switch over to all digital HD content and they aren't even giving me the top standard, lame! (Best I get is 1080i)
Not only are SSD prices going down, but traditional hard drives are going UP! (At least for the short term)
Prices taken from Newegg.com:
Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB is $399.99 (used to be a lot cheaper)
Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA III:
About a year ago: On sale for $60, regular $70
Now: $149.99
I think now is the time of the SSD and the hybrid drive is just not worth the price
And considering this drive is retailed at $239.99 and a regular mechanical 750GB drive is between $69.99(Hitachi Deskstar) and $179.99(Western Digital Black) there is no reason to buy it.
Just go buy a small SSD and a regular mechanical drive and do it manually
Dont you think that these type of systems should NOT be hooked up to the internet and that putting them on the internet is just asking for sh*t to go wrong?
If they really need to be networked with other computers maybe they should invest in their own fiber cables, I mean aren't there plenty of dark fiber for them to buy
And what about locking down the computers themselves, I believe Stuxnet and the Wikileaks deals were because you can just plug a flash drive in and hit copy, who thought that was a good idea to allow???
Sounds like another left hand not talking to the right hand to me
And more to the question posted, don't you think a strike against a cyber-attacker is a little overboard? I mean isn't it like trying to shoot a mosquito with a shotgun, a little overkill and unwarranted don't you think?
For that matter what is a justifiable punishment for that type of crime? A counter cyber-attack, extradition(if we can, depending on where the attack originated from) for prosecution?
Then you have to think about whether it was a country or an individual that has committed the crime, does a town need to get attacked or 1 house? And for that matter he didn't have a gun so using a gun seems like a little much.
Whoever comes up with the answer must make sure that it is a justifiable one and that we aren't just being the world police like always.
Nice response I totally agree... however I totally agree with others that Access is a pretty poor database but it works on the small-ish scale. (Although I do know of an IT company that uses it for their ticketing system... I know, I know you would think they know better, but they are IT pros not programmers and it works for them)
If you have the skills I like the suggestions by others of: MySQL and/or a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) server for a web-based database program(although it seems a lot more complex then what you already have in place).
I also like your basic aggregation questions, if these are accurate questions you need answered then Access can do them as Anon said above.