You can't get cheep windows VPSs probably due to the cost of windows license. I don't know why you would want to mount an ISO on a server with less than 256 MB of RAM but you could serve the content of an ISO from one if you somehow wanted to avoid extracting it.
You are right that any "machine" with the RAM to meet windows requirements probably can handle a GUI.
When ram runs under $20 for your choice of brand in 4GB sticks I fail to find myself concerned with how much ram windows wants. It is one of the (if not the) cheapest components of a computer these days. Splurge and get yourself an 8GB upgrade for 40 bucks. May or may not be a surprise to you but Linux runs slicker than snot on a healthy amount of RAM as well. My source for pricing: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600006067&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20
Linux requires root for too many things. You shouldn't need root to mount a file/device.
So you're saying I should be able to plug in a USB stick with a setuid root shell on it, mount that without root permissions, and own your system with almost zero effort?
He didn't say anything about permissions required to execute a program stored on the device. He said you shouldn't need root to mount the device (such as a USB stick in your example). You should be able to plug it in and it should work. If you want to run the herpes.exe or whatever might be on it, that's not part of the same process. Using a USB drive or a CD should require zero computer skills aside from sticking the thing in the drive right side up.
Right, because the command line is so unimportant that Microsoft came up with an entirely new command shell called PowerShell and OSX has full-on bash.
You know, the two major OSes pointed at consumer idiots have powerful shells. Go figure.
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Optional for power users who want them, not required for simple tasks like mounting an image where a mouse click will do.
Well, my boss knows my political position (welcome to our wonderful world of politicial influence in pretty much any place that is remotely touching administration), he knows my medical problems (after all, he's the guy who has to sign my sick days), where I live (because he needs a place to send my mail to) and as far as I can tell, he doesn't give half a shit if I enjoy sucking off goats as long as I do my job.
That doesn't mean that I enjoy some random company having any data of me. Hence I usually give them more data than they want. Poison the cache with random data and let's see how they find out how they match up.
Sure, but if another company found out that your employer knowingly employs a guy who has methadone treatments on thursdays and sucks off goats on the weekends it could end up costing you your job due to potential bad PR. IMO all that information isn't particularly interesting or meaningful by its-self but once you tie it all together, it can be a different story.
CompUSA never did close. The company was purchased by some other company and the stores (at least the one around here) remain open to this day under the CompUSA monicker. What did happen is they lowered their prices, started selling OEM/Grey box stuff so they now compete price wise with online shops like newegg.
Unless my life depended on it, I doubt I could ever train myself to use 32+ memorized "chords" to type all of the letters and numbers. Plus, you have to be able to backspace, space, and other stuff too. And any single-finger "chord" could be easily mistaken for trying to select something on the screen, or moving a cursor, etc. Sounds like it would need lots of rules, timing limitations, etc... really complex.
I could be wrong, but in this case, I don't think I will ever know:)
IANAPL, but looking at that patent, I can name several technologies which existed before it, peforming parts of the same functions. Problem is, the companies which made those products are mostly out of business by now and what hardware isn't in the Computer Museum is in a landfill in China, where a lot of the old computers went to be scraped for gold and copper.
Did you see the recent iPad suit where apple won based on the design of the ipad that was identical to that of something in a movie like 40 years prior? Technologies existing first, is no more a guarantee than some guy walking in and saying "nuh-uh" these days. Even WITH photos.
Take one such "manager" and put him on the thing for take off. If they believe it is safe, let them put their money where their mouth is.
Call it a 10,000$ a pound insurance policy.
In the future they may want to make hiring light/small/tiny managers standard procedure. It may have the unintended consequence of allowing for the now larger engineers to physically push management around and intimidate them.
One of the problems with that is cost. The other is that the manager probably isn't qualified to actually do anything useful ON the shuttle, so he'd be literally wasting the oxygen he breathes. It would probably be better to just try the guy who ignored the engineers for negligence, possibly manslaughter. Put him in jail and let the incident serve as a warning to his replacement.
It doesn't have to be that way. Battery life has all but dissapeared in discussions/debates/religious wars about cell phones. The hard core android fan brags about having four cores in their phone, even if everything they're doing could easily be handled by a single core, gets its battery drained four times faster, and doesn't have a noticable performance improvement over the competition.
We're missing a battery life per functionality unit in the tech wars debate.
You're out of date.
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/DROID-RAZR-MAXX-by-MOTOROLA-US-EN
4g droid with insane battery life. Motorola says: On one full charge, you can host a marathon (as in more than 21-hour) conference call. Whip through the web for 7 hours straight. Get your movie fix with 15 uninterrupted hours of flick watching. Jam out all weekend. That’s right — on one full charge, you can listen to music for two and half days straight.
Oh definitely, but for example the Tegra3 despite having four cores shuts them all down most of the time, and runs a 5th power-saving core. All of this is done silently behind the scenes, and so they never know that they're usually only running on a low-power efficiency core, rather than the roaring engine in the back.
It's like having a two-cylinder engine that is used during stop-and-go traffic (you know, the majority of what you do during your commute) that allows you to drive your Ferrari down to the store without having to fill up on gas on the way back home. But any time you have to impress someone, and pull out the e-peen, then you can just "drop the hammer" and the engine switches over to the high-performance v12, and you go "ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"
It's definitely all about marketing. This is the best way that they could come up with to let you have your cake and eat it, too... "it has 4 cores, _AND_ it has excellent battery life! *mumbling under breath* because it is almost always running on an economy core unless you're showing off..."
You don't know how good that car analogy is here. Honda's minivans have 6 cylinders and the computer will disable 3 of the 6 as needed to achieve better fuel economy without sacrificing performance when you need it. Of course "performance" on a minivan is relative, but you get the point.
So, the police have a legitimate reason for securing their network, and have discussed options accommodating other stake-holders who might be inconvenienced by improving their system's security. It sounds to me like the police are handling this sanely and fairly. What's the problem here?
...but the ambulance chasers.. erhm "media" might not be the first to get to the hospital to harass victims!
They'll still be able to see what sites you're visiting. Even if the actual data is encrypted it would be trivial to log tcp connections and IP's. In fact, you can bet that the black boxes in place already do it.
The reason Sea "pirates" dont have a chance is because they dont have Trillions of dollars to have massive balttleships built and they typically are low IQ types. If they had any brains they would get their hands on some old WW-II submarines and utterly own the US navy. a WW-II torpedo will take out a US ship easily.
Because that worked out so well for the nazi's in WW-II?
Seriously, though if some pirates actually got equipment and tried to wage war on the U.S. like this, i'm fairly certain the U.S. would do more than send a couple ships to patrol the area.
this means less intel in the market and more AMD!!!!
though seriously, how good is the ARM architecture today? havent tried it yet, does it provide comparable performance to an intel processor of similar price tag?
To answer you directly, no. Not even close. I've read a few articles where folks are hopeful AMD could try to change that. Time will tell, I suppose.
If its telling Google to try and control the amount of bandwidth the users decide to use, well, I think they are going to have a little trouble getting that done.
TFA specifically states they are trying to control VOIP data usage. Not unlike the (failed) domestic attempts to limit voip on a smartphone in order to preserve traditional airtime revenues. Do you remember all the hubub when apple/at&t tried to ban Skype? It's a thinly veiled attempt to screw customers, and I'm sure Google has no particular interest in limiting their users traffic based on the content being transmitted.
Winamp does pretty well, and it's mostly just a clone of DoubleTwist, which is also quite good, and both free. But if you want a few more features, spending a whopping $5 is no big hardship, and gives you access to some top-rate apps.
PowerAMP is a great player.. I think it's 5 or 10 bucks.. it plays everything I've thrown at it. My daughter has an iPOD touch; the native player sucks badly for file format support. Guess what, the android native player sucks too, as does the windows native player (media player) and presumably the osx native player.
1. Purchase pay-to-call and pay-to-sms services
2. Stand on street corner with megaphone yelling out instructions for phones to dial and message my numbers
3. Profit!
In fact you could just buy ads during popular TV shows that clearly speak the same instructions...
I would point out that England has long had it be illegal to engage in communications that are preliminary to serious crimes. There's no implicit assumption in the British legal system that communications are harmless.
2 Years seems a bit drastic, when a month or two would have been better for preventing polarization. As an American, of course, I find this antithetical to my values, but I don't have as much of a stake in British law.
Sometimes, America doesn't seem like such a bad place to live after all.
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You can't get cheep windows VPSs probably due to the cost of windows license. I don't know why you would want to mount an ISO on a server with less than 256 MB of RAM but you could serve the content of an ISO from one if you somehow wanted to avoid extracting it.
You are right that any "machine" with the RAM to meet windows requirements probably can handle a GUI.
When ram runs under $20 for your choice of brand in 4GB sticks I fail to find myself concerned with how much ram windows wants. It is one of the (if not the) cheapest components of a computer these days. Splurge and get yourself an 8GB upgrade for 40 bucks. May or may not be a surprise to you but Linux runs slicker than snot on a healthy amount of RAM as well.
My source for pricing: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600006067&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20
Linux requires root for too many things. You shouldn't need root to mount a file/device.
So you're saying I should be able to plug in a USB stick with a setuid root shell on it, mount that without root permissions, and own your system with almost zero effort?
He didn't say anything about permissions required to execute a program stored on the device. He said you shouldn't need root to mount the device (such as a USB stick in your example). You should be able to plug it in and it should work. If you want to run the herpes.exe or whatever might be on it, that's not part of the same process. Using a USB drive or a CD should require zero computer skills aside from sticking the thing in the drive right side up.
Right, because the command line is so unimportant that Microsoft came up with an entirely new command shell called PowerShell and OSX has full-on bash.
You know, the two major OSes pointed at consumer idiots have powerful shells. Go figure.
-- BMO
Optional for power users who want them, not required for simple tasks like mounting an image where a mouse click will do.
Well, my boss knows my political position (welcome to our wonderful world of politicial influence in pretty much any place that is remotely touching administration), he knows my medical problems (after all, he's the guy who has to sign my sick days), where I live (because he needs a place to send my mail to) and as far as I can tell, he doesn't give half a shit if I enjoy sucking off goats as long as I do my job.
That doesn't mean that I enjoy some random company having any data of me. Hence I usually give them more data than they want. Poison the cache with random data and let's see how they find out how they match up.
Sure, but if another company found out that your employer knowingly employs a guy who has methadone treatments on thursdays and sucks off goats on the weekends it could end up costing you your job due to potential bad PR.
IMO all that information isn't particularly interesting or meaningful by its-self but once you tie it all together, it can be a different story.
I know this is beside the point, but since when was Borders a 'tech store'?
Book lights, friend! Didn't they have some kind of e-reader, too?
CompUSA never did close. The company was purchased by some other company and the stores (at least the one around here) remain open to this day under the CompUSA monicker. What did happen is they lowered their prices, started selling OEM/Grey box stuff so they now compete price wise with online shops like newegg.
http://www.compusa.com/retailstores/compusaStores/index.asp
Degrading our safety systems to Chinese levels to make a billionaire slightly richer is not a preferred option.
Unless you ask that billionaire.
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You mean like the Frogpad? http://www.frogpad.com/
I've been interested in this keyboard for years, but figured it'd be too hard to type on anything else afterwards.
Things sold by a guy named "Dr Gadget" strike me as highly likely to be a gimmick or scam.
Unless my life depended on it, I doubt I could ever train myself to use 32+ memorized "chords" to type all of the letters and numbers. Plus, you have to be able to backspace, space, and other stuff too. And any single-finger "chord" could be easily mistaken for trying to select something on the screen, or moving a cursor, etc. Sounds like it would need lots of rules, timing limitations, etc... really complex.
I could be wrong, but in this case, I don't think I will ever know :)
I bet with the appropriate electrical brain simulation you could learn it quickly!
IANAPL, but looking at that patent, I can name several technologies which existed before it, peforming parts of the same functions. Problem is, the companies which made those products are mostly out of business by now and what hardware isn't in the Computer Museum is in a landfill in China, where a lot of the old computers went to be scraped for gold and copper.
Did you see the recent iPad suit where apple won based on the design of the ipad that was identical to that of something in a movie like 40 years prior? Technologies existing first, is no more a guarantee than some guy walking in and saying "nuh-uh" these days. Even WITH photos.
Easy Solution:
Take one such "manager" and put him on the thing for take off. If they believe it is safe, let them put their money where their mouth is.
Call it a 10,000$ a pound insurance policy.
In the future they may want to make hiring light/small/tiny managers standard procedure. It may have the unintended consequence of allowing for the now larger engineers to physically push management around and intimidate them.
One of the problems with that is cost. The other is that the manager probably isn't qualified to actually do anything useful ON the shuttle, so he'd be literally wasting the oxygen he breathes.
It would probably be better to just try the guy who ignored the engineers for negligence, possibly manslaughter. Put him in jail and let the incident serve as a warning to his replacement.
It doesn't have to be that way. Battery life has all but dissapeared in discussions/debates/religious wars about cell phones. The hard core android fan brags about having four cores in their phone, even if everything they're doing could easily be handled by a single core, gets its battery drained four times faster, and doesn't have a noticable performance improvement over the competition.
We're missing a battery life per functionality unit in the tech wars debate.
You're out of date.
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/DROID-RAZR-MAXX-by-MOTOROLA-US-EN
4g droid with insane battery life.
Motorola says: On one full charge, you can host a marathon (as in more than 21-hour) conference call. Whip through the web for 7 hours straight. Get your movie fix with 15 uninterrupted hours of flick watching. Jam out all weekend. That’s right — on one full charge, you can listen to music for two and half days straight.
Oh definitely, but for example the Tegra3 despite having four cores shuts them all down most of the time, and runs a 5th power-saving core. All of this is done silently behind the scenes, and so they never know that they're usually only running on a low-power efficiency core, rather than the roaring engine in the back.
It's like having a two-cylinder engine that is used during stop-and-go traffic (you know, the majority of what you do during your commute) that allows you to drive your Ferrari down to the store without having to fill up on gas on the way back home. But any time you have to impress someone, and pull out the e-peen, then you can just "drop the hammer" and the engine switches over to the high-performance v12, and you go "ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"
It's definitely all about marketing. This is the best way that they could come up with to let you have your cake and eat it, too... "it has 4 cores, _AND_ it has excellent battery life! *mumbling under breath* because it is almost always running on an economy core unless you're showing off..."
You don't know how good that car analogy is here. Honda's minivans have 6 cylinders and the computer will disable 3 of the 6 as needed to achieve better fuel economy without sacrificing performance when you need it. Of course "performance" on a minivan is relative, but you get the point.
So, the police have a legitimate reason for securing their network, and have discussed options accommodating other stake-holders who might be inconvenienced by improving their system's security. It sounds to me like the police are handling this sanely and fairly. What's the problem here?
...but the ambulance chasers.. erhm "media" might not be the first to get to the hospital to harass victims!
They'll still be able to see what sites you're visiting. Even if the actual data is encrypted it would be trivial to log tcp connections and IP's. In fact, you can bet that the black boxes in place already do it.
The reason Sea "pirates" dont have a chance is because they dont have Trillions of dollars to have massive balttleships built and they typically are low IQ types. If they had any brains they would get their hands on some old WW-II submarines and utterly own the US navy. a WW-II torpedo will take out a US ship easily.
Because that worked out so well for the nazi's in WW-II? Seriously, though if some pirates actually got equipment and tried to wage war on the U.S. like this, i'm fairly certain the U.S. would do more than send a couple ships to patrol the area.
It's sure as hell not mightier than the public, though.
As long as double cheeseburgers are 99 cents, I don't think most of the public can be motivated to do much of anything.
this means less intel in the market and more AMD!!!!
though seriously, how good is the ARM architecture today? havent tried it yet, does it provide comparable performance to an intel processor of similar price tag?
To answer you directly, no. Not even close. I've read a few articles where folks are hopeful AMD could try to change that. Time will tell, I suppose.
As opposed to Javascript?
Yes, that's a good example of a better choice.
If its telling Google to try and control the amount of bandwidth the users decide to use, well, I think they are going to have a little trouble getting that done.
TFA specifically states they are trying to control VOIP data usage. Not unlike the (failed) domestic attempts to limit voip on a smartphone in order to preserve traditional airtime revenues. Do you remember all the hubub when apple/at&t tried to ban Skype? It's a thinly veiled attempt to screw customers, and I'm sure Google has no particular interest in limiting their users traffic based on the content being transmitted.
Winamp does pretty well, and it's mostly just a clone of DoubleTwist, which is also quite good, and both free. But if you want a few more features, spending a whopping $5 is no big hardship, and gives you access to some top-rate apps.
PowerAMP is a great player.. I think it's 5 or 10 bucks.. it plays everything I've thrown at it. My daughter has an iPOD touch; the native player sucks badly for file format support. Guess what, the android native player sucks too, as does the windows native player (media player) and presumably the osx native player.
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1. Purchase pay-to-call and pay-to-sms services 2. Stand on street corner with megaphone yelling out instructions for phones to dial and message my numbers 3. Profit!
In fact you could just buy ads during popular TV shows that clearly speak the same instructions...
Hey, keep that on the down low.
I'll probably go with "continue to not use twitter".
I will do the same but at the same time I might also do a lot of not caring.
I would point out that England has long had it be illegal to engage in communications that are preliminary to serious crimes. There's no implicit assumption in the British legal system that communications are harmless.
2 Years seems a bit drastic, when a month or two would have been better for preventing polarization. As an American, of course, I find this antithetical to my values, but I don't have as much of a stake in British law.
Sometimes, America doesn't seem like such a bad place to live after all.