Trouble is NASA themselves and the Russian space program even with all the professionals developing their equipment has put enough crap which has died either during or just after launch.
What we need is a satellite like the one of that Bond film which can capture other space objects and return them to earth...
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For it to be any use in Finland wouldn't it need to be set to find the nearest four stashes of moonshine given the cost of getting ratted over there???
The problem with the way the Intel CPUID was implemented was that is turned out it could be used to track your surfing habits etc...
The problem with CPU ID's is the ID per se but the way in which it can be used. If you make it easy enough to access for theft detection measures then you also make it easy for people to track your PC based activities.
Looking at Dan Kegel's letter the one thing that's striking me about this issue is...
Microsoft is global company causing global problems not just to the development process inside the US but outside it as well - especially as alot of open source projects have a wide range of international contributors, but as things stand only US points of view can be submitted to the courts.
While I agree that as this case is being brought in the US weighting ought to be given to US residents as this affects everyone people outside the US ought to have some scope to feed comments into the process. I know the EU is looking at (or are they still?) bringing its own case against MS but again this only will take account of EU concerns.
For matters of this nature which are truely global a global perspective needs to be presented.
As someone whose just got laid off from Macaroni its nice to see a company making a profit and having something good said about it for once.
All the negative press and talk of recessions etc is a very good way of getting a recession...
Let's hope that a) amazon keep the profits going up, b) they've had their bout of bloodletting and don't need to again (or atleast for a long time) and c) that I can manage to persuade my pig to land...
Hmm.... not too far of what we've got now is it...
And what is technology empowering me got to do with the fact I enjoy my own space and don't like being crowded... I spend alot of time away from any technology (Bar the kettle for the coffee's) and away from people and that's the way I prefer it.
Expressing a dislike for crowded spaces as said above is my preference and even without any knowledge of computers it would be the same.
If more people stayed online it might be possible to walk around a shopping mall without getting run into by out of control brats, bumped into by pushchairs, and generally bumped around like a pinball stuck in the bumper zone...
I spend alot of time online and converse with a few people in the States and other places dotted around the world. A few years ago this wouldn't have been the case - at most you saw the people in your village or town with possibly a few whereever you went on holiday...
It does.
Only problem is Win2k has a problem with DMA mode on onboard controllers...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=k b; EN-US;q262448
ATA66 DMA transfer mode is not supported for the onboard IDE controller.
Which accounts for the wasted day trying to debug my 2k setup (at home... I didn't have another working PC so couldn't get to the knowledge base... luckly my Linux disks arrived the next day.. and the rest is history - only reason I keep 2k is for some games and compatibility with Office docs I port to and from work...)
Why does this make AMD look any worse than, oh let me see... Intel?
Remmember the bug with their Pentiums that caused them to give the wrong FP results if you used certain values (due the small(?) mistake of omitting a column of lookup values)... we seem to be forgetting that CPU's are getting more and more complex but the people designing them and checking them etc still have to use the old Mk1.brain.
AMD still make better sense than the Intel cpu's on a $ per performance basis.
Coincidentally the UK has signed up to the European Human Rights act, and also recently the Data Protection Act has been ammended. I am unsure how much of the HR act will cover this but...
I do that the DP act states that employers should not subject employees to continual monitoring of their private affairs.... this includes emails, telephone calls etc - whether made using employer resources or their own.
Having said that I don't see the problem, I use my works email for *personal* use during the day, but personal use does not include bitching about my boss, distributing porn etc.
If you can't be sensible then you probably will lose your job anyway.
Umm, effectively forever. The ocean is very large, and the amount of space junk in our atmosphere is small, comparitively. Besides, people are complaining all the time about junk in space, so you have two options:
Hmm... I would disagree that the oceans can continue to absorb all our crap... it might be big but it is a fragile environment and we've already added enough crap without dropping all the junk in space into them...
Apart from that what fuel cells does Mir use?
Anyway if we must junk it in the ocean first send a crew upto it to strip it of any dangerous or reusable parts then dump it...
Just hope you don't eat a fish thats got poluted by some crap that isn't supposed to be in the ocean.
Hmm... how much longer can we go on dumping our junk in the oceans without seriously screwing up our ecosystems...
Wouldn't some of the $40million be better spent attaching powerful boosters to the station and firing it off into space, or boosting into a geosynch. orbit and keeping it there... I know it would be a hazard to other misions if it's in a geosync orbit but atleast its position would be know and so avoidance could be taken.
No it is not pointless. As a professional software developer its nice to have a choice of Oses etc for use in projects, that way you pick the one that best fits your requirments and not have to shoe-horn an existing bloated os into a matchbox. And to be honest, these days Linux as used on a desktop pc is starting to gradually suffer from bloat.
If you actually read the draft legilastion (cybercrime.doc) it only makes software/hardware illegal if it used illegally so from reading we can all keep using our cracking tools, sniffers etc providing we don't do anything illegal with them. Where Zdnet dragged that 'access' up from I don't know but if we want to be taken seriously by non-computer literate people then maybe we need to have something like this to build trust (though sod the interception and recoding keeping parts of the act...)
Make illegal access, interception, and interference of computer systems or communications a criminal offense;
Okay, this is fair enough if it applies to governments as well as individuals.
Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access, intercept or interfere with computer systems or communications; HOW the hell do they expect me then as a network engineer to monitor network traffic to actually fix problems or to debug software, keep track of illeagle use...
Outlaw the fraud and forgery of computer data as well as copyright infringement;
No problems with this.
Broadly criminalize child pornography, even if the subject only appears to be a child;
How do they plan to enforce this and what age is a child... all the countries in Europe have different ages of consent.
Hold corporations liable for crimes and make certain service providers can collect data on their subscribers and save such data when authorities request it; and
Cooperate with other jurisdictions to secure evidence and extradite those persons charged with a computer crime.
As we can't intercept traffic on our networks or have the equipment to do it how do we keep information? And I thought RIP was bad...
Nexus, the trouble with implementing filters is how the hell do they decide what is/isnot acceptable. Take a filter system that (for instance) measures the amount of exposed flesh in a picture. If there is alot it blocks. Right, now take a student doing research in their local library/school lab into antomony or medical research...
Take a word parser that blocks sites with unacceptable words... soon someone will come up with methods of breaking the filter.
Filters just don't work full stop -- not with out alot more power than we have available to us.
I hate to say anything but that sounds like statements made by IBM et al earlier on this (eepp... last now) century that computers with decent power would never be affordable by the masses...
Unfortunatly yes. If we want manufactures to come up with new ways of improving performance, programmability then they will end up diverging over the short-term.
This isn't want we want or need to happen but with the usual I thought of it first, I'll sue you now childish arguements...
Some years ago before inteligent caches, pipelining, branch prediction it used to be possible to get a human to optimize compiler generated asm code. These days compilers have to have more and more knowledge about their target cpu to provide efficient code, and due to all the different permutations of optimization and processor features its getting harder and harder to hand-optimize code. Which makes me wonder more and more is how efficient are our compilers that attempt to provide support for AMD,Intel, et al...
Thinking about this at a slightly more elevated level...
If your going to compare x86 compatible CPU's should you use a benchmarking program that actually uses x86 compatible code (how about a series of benchmarks test each level of x86?) and therefore runs on ANY 100% x86 processor...
Put in some additional code which detects SSE / MMX/ 3D_Now / 3D_Now+ and run the appropriate code as required but make each block carry out a similar task...
anyway just my 2c.
Well whats wrong with German language news...
Especially give SAP is a large multinational and if they do release a GPL'd database it will giev more weight to the Opensource efforts. We need more companies prepared to do things like this, and if the early news happens to be on a German site, well I know what I'd rather have...
And as you posted as AC I can't be expected to know you where UK based...
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Trouble is NASA themselves and the Russian space program even with all the professionals developing their equipment has put enough crap which has died either during or just after launch.
What we need is a satellite like the one of that Bond film which can capture other space objects and return them to earth...
For it to be any use in Finland wouldn't it need to be set to find the nearest four stashes of moonshine given the cost of getting ratted over there???
The problem with the way the Intel CPUID was implemented was that is turned out it could be used to track your surfing habits etc...
The problem with CPU ID's is the ID per se but the way in which it can be used. If you make it easy enough to access for theft detection measures then you also make it easy for people to track your PC based activities.
That's assuming your thief hasn't flogged your goods to some bloke down the pub who buys it for their kids to play games on...
Looking at Dan Kegel's letter the one thing that's striking me about this issue is...
Microsoft is global company causing global problems not just to the development process inside the US but outside it as well - especially as alot of open source projects have a wide range of international contributors, but as things stand only US points of view can be submitted to the courts.
While I agree that as this case is being brought in the US weighting ought to be given to US residents as this affects everyone people outside the US ought to have some scope to feed comments into the process. I know the EU is looking at (or are they still?) bringing its own case against MS but again this only will take account of EU concerns.
For matters of this nature which are truely global a global perspective needs to be presented.
As someone whose just got laid off from Macaroni its nice to see a company making a profit and having something good said about it for once.
All the negative press and talk of recessions etc is a very good way of getting a recession...
Let's hope that a) amazon keep the profits going up, b) they've had their bout of bloodletting and don't need to again (or atleast for a long time) and c) that I can manage to persuade my pig to land...
Hmm.... not too far of what we've got now is it...
And what is technology empowering me got to do with the fact I enjoy my own space and don't like being crowded... I spend alot of time away from any technology (Bar the kettle for the coffee's) and away from people and that's the way I prefer it.
Expressing a dislike for crowded spaces as said above is my preference and even without any knowledge of computers it would be the same.
Hell, my idea of hell is shopping in busy malls.
If more people stayed online it might be possible to walk around a shopping mall without getting run into by out of control brats, bumped into by pushchairs, and generally bumped around like a pinball stuck in the bumper zone...
Well said.
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I spend alot of time online and converse with a few people in the States and other places dotted around the world. A few years ago this wouldn't have been the case - at most you saw the people in your village or town with possibly a few whereever you went on holiday...
Apart from that look at all interaction on \.
It does.k b; EN-US;q262448
Only problem is Win2k has a problem with DMA mode on onboard controllers...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
ATA66 DMA transfer mode is not supported for the onboard IDE controller.
Which accounts for the wasted day trying to debug my 2k setup (at home... I didn't have another working PC so couldn't get to the knowledge base... luckly my Linux disks arrived the next day.. and the rest is history - only reason I keep 2k is for some games and compatibility with Office docs I port to and from work...)
Eye-candy and RTOS?
To me there are alot more important issues in a RTOS than the eye-canday... response speeds, QoS guarantees, robustness etc.
And robustness and pretty UI's usually don't go well together as alot of pretty UI's break the KISS rules...
Why does this make AMD look any worse than, oh let me see... Intel?
Remmember the bug with their Pentiums that caused them to give the wrong FP results if you used certain values (due the small(?) mistake of omitting a column of lookup values)... we seem to be forgetting that CPU's are getting more and more complex but the people designing them and checking them etc still have to use the old Mk1.brain.
AMD still make better sense than the Intel cpu's on a $ per performance basis.
I do that the DP act states that employers should not subject employees to continual monitoring of their private affairs.... this includes emails, telephone calls etc - whether made using employer resources or their own.
Having said that I don't see the problem, I use my works email for *personal* use during the day, but personal use does not include bitching about my boss, distributing porn etc. If you can't be sensible then you probably will lose your job anyway.
Umm, effectively forever. The ocean is very large, and the amount of space junk in our atmosphere is small, comparitively. Besides, people are complaining all the time about junk in space, so you have two options: Hmm... I would disagree that the oceans can continue to absorb all our crap... it might be big but it is a fragile environment and we've already added enough crap without dropping all the junk in space into them... Apart from that what fuel cells does Mir use? Anyway if we must junk it in the ocean first send a crew upto it to strip it of any dangerous or reusable parts then dump it... Just hope you don't eat a fish thats got poluted by some crap that isn't supposed to be in the ocean.
Hmm... how much longer can we go on dumping our junk in the oceans without seriously screwing up our ecosystems... Wouldn't some of the $40million be better spent attaching powerful boosters to the station and firing it off into space, or boosting into a geosynch. orbit and keeping it there... I know it would be a hazard to other misions if it's in a geosync orbit but atleast its position would be know and so avoidance could be taken.
No it is not pointless. As a professional software developer its nice to have a choice of Oses etc for use in projects, that way you pick the one that best fits your requirments and not have to shoe-horn an existing bloated os into a matchbox. And to be honest, these days Linux as used on a desktop pc is starting to gradually suffer from bloat.
If you actually read the draft legilastion (cybercrime.doc) it only makes software/hardware illegal if it used illegally so from reading we can all keep using our cracking tools, sniffers etc providing we don't do anything illegal with them.
Where Zdnet dragged that 'access' up from I don't know but if we want to be taken seriously by non-computer literate people then maybe we need to have something like this to build trust (though sod the interception and recoding keeping parts of the act...)
Time to leave Europe I think...
Nexus, the trouble with implementing filters is how the hell do they decide what is/isnot acceptable. Take a filter system that (for instance) measures the amount of exposed flesh in a picture. If there is alot it blocks. Right, now take a student doing research in their local library/school lab into antomony or medical research... Take a word parser that blocks sites with unacceptable words... soon someone will come up with methods of breaking the filter. Filters just don't work full stop -- not with out alot more power than we have available to us.
I hate to say anything but that sounds like statements made by IBM et al earlier on this (eepp... last now) century that computers with decent power would never be affordable by the masses...
Unfortunatly yes. If we want manufactures to come up with new ways of improving performance, programmability then they will end up diverging over the short-term. This isn't want we want or need to happen but with the usual I thought of it first, I'll sue you now childish arguements...
Some years ago before inteligent caches, pipelining, branch prediction it used to be possible to get a human to optimize compiler generated asm code.
These days compilers have to have more and more knowledge about their target cpu to provide efficient code, and due to all the different permutations of optimization and processor features its getting harder and harder to hand-optimize code. Which makes me wonder more and more is how efficient are our compilers that attempt to provide support for AMD,Intel, et al...
Thinking about this at a slightly more elevated level... If your going to compare x86 compatible CPU's should you use a benchmarking program that actually uses x86 compatible code (how about a series of benchmarks test each level of x86?) and therefore runs on ANY 100% x86 processor... Put in some additional code which detects SSE / MMX/ 3D_Now / 3D_Now+ and run the appropriate code as required but make each block carry out a similar task... anyway just my 2c.
Well whats wrong with German language news... Especially give SAP is a large multinational and if they do release a GPL'd database it will giev more weight to the Opensource efforts. We need more companies prepared to do things like this, and if the early news happens to be on a German site, well I know what I'd rather have... And as you posted as AC I can't be expected to know you where UK based...
Trouble is these days I find it hard to tell which is which...