My guess is this is not a hacker out to steal credit cards, but rather a foreign government like North Korea, China, or even Israel if they are targeting such sites.
North Korea in particular is known to steal money too with World of Warcraft gold scams to give money back to Kim Jong Ill. Facebook and Twitter targeting also indicate spying. China would have a keen interest in this.
Either way this is dangerous and could have been going on for awhile. I agree we need some sort of key pair trusted relationship that is more secure. A CA wont work and my fear is the government (American) would love to be this new authority for a secure DNS like system.
"You have succinctly defined what it is that I don't like about people who buy Windows or iDevices without ever seriously considering the alternatives"
A couple years ago I thought it would be a great idea to create a floating city in an expensive area like off San Deigo or San Fransisco where space and price are premium.
If you could make a floating city you could earn 2 - 3 million a house. That is a lot of cash that would yield a great ROI and give price relief to those who live in these metropolitan areas. Just a thought I had.
All you would need is the same rubber foam used to float various structures near the shore. Do it on a massive scale and you make gold.
Knuth teaches goto statements so I wouldn't listen to him or read any of his works. All the other books and any computer science professor will tell you gotos are bad and unstructured.
Seriously that book is loaded. I mean loaded with 10k lines of code! Very detailed oriented if you ever want to dig deep and try some excersizes as well as skip some.
Too bad my ex has my Dietel and Dietel how to program C++ and Java books. Nothing online compares to the detail of these books
I do not understand? I run an AMD too and until last fall I was CPU agnostic. AMDs were more bang for the buck and I wanted a system that was ATI graphics. Are you talking about upgrading mroe often with money saved? Because in 3 to 4 years your system will be slow anyway no matter if you paid $1,000 or $5,000.
I bought a nice 6 core Phenom X6 x1035T. It is underclocked to only 2.6 ghz, but for $450 I got 8 gigs of ram and virtualization to run VMWare with its SSD instructions. With the 6 cores and 8 gigs of ram it rocks to have 3 - 4 VMS running for the price I paid.
With an ATI 5750 that came with it, games run reasonable well too. As soon as I upgrade the PSU I plan to flash the bios so I can clock my cpu to 3.2 ghs. Asus crippled but there are hacks to get around it.
For value, the AMD phemom II is only 4-7% slower and well worth the price. They are just as fast seriously. Intel pays off people... cough Tomshardware... cough... money to find benchmarks and then stretch the graphics to make it look like the Sandy Bridge is like 40% faster. It really is not.
Also the integrated graphics on Bulldozer and Llamo give Intel a run for the money too. Windows 8 tablet UI uses IE 10 for html 5 hardware acceleration. Graphics will be much more important
It can share fine if it uses the same dedicated memory controller without doing an interrupt to the CPU or chipset each time it needs to access ram. That is what crippled the other integrated chipsets.
If it access the ram via the CPU ram controller then the bandwidth is much higher. Bulldozer can do this even quicker with the same memory bus. It will probably get close as a dedicated card since it does not have to wait for the CPU to finish access the ram first since multiple channels are used and you no longer have the issue of waiting for the chipset before it can access the ram like the older integrated solutions.
Not quite as fast but even if it performs as fast as a Nvidia 8600 GTS that will be good for cheap solutions and laptops. My guess is Crysis and World of warcraft mixed with Flash running 1080p will be fine. Crysis maybe at 1280 x 1024 instead of 1080p but that is fine. One slashdotter who owns a Llamo system said he can rum Sims 3 and full screen 1080p video surprisingly fine which shocked him. These are not cutting edge like a dedicated gaming desktop, but for $450 laptop not bad. Certainly with Windows 8, running HTML 5 applets with IE 10 hardware acceleration it will best Intel's offerings easily in user experience in cheap devices.
Since SSL was banned to foreign countries, Japan, China, and South Korea standardized on ActiveX controls for banking and any e-commerce.
It is no longer banned but if you go to sites that measure browswer marketshare you get a marketshare that heavily favors Microsoft. It is why Apple left the Korean market a decade ago with Macs as they were useless for anything internet related in Asia. IE 6 and XP marketshare are much lower than what you hear on slashdot because China and much of Asia skew the results.
I do admit this was a bad decision on government encryption export controls more than it was on MS being abusive forcing itself on others with OEMs as Netscape/Firefox did not have an answer to ActiveX and encrption other than relying on SSL.
The benchmarks I have seen only show a 5% decrease in performance. You wont notice that unless you are running simulations or doing something hardcore. It is not like it is a big drop.
Llamo, on the otherhand has much better graphics compared to an Intel atom.. to hell even a full speed i5! Bulldozer will have even better graphics. If you just run IE 9/10, flash, and Office the AMD llamo and bulldozer will seem faster and less choppy. They can also run games like World of Warcraft as well. Sub notebooks sucks and can do these things and run these games.
If you own a dedicated GPU go open IE 9 with Google video and move the up and down arrows? IE 9 is fluid and smooth compared to any browser. If you have a crappy video card it wont seem any different than Chrome or Firefox.
Windows 8 will be hardware accelerated by video with IE 10 integration and a better integrated GPU that is on par with a dedicated graphics card will be better for average users.
AMD has some nice products out now and the next generation will be great for netbooks and notebooks and teenagers who can finally play more than angry birds on their sub $400 notebook.
I thought the k5 never saw the light of day? K6 was the first AMD success.
Bulldozer might give Intel a run for the money and low to mid end notebook and sub notebook markets. Finally an integrated GPU that is not 7 years behind dedicated video cards. That is a plus for PC games and AMDs graphics are better than Intels.
The idea to ban exclusives deal with anti trust laws.
Sure you might get a sweet deal, but the point is it hurts consumers who want to play the games and are stuck without buying 3 different consoles because of agreements by the makers to limit compeition. The other argument if one console starts winning like Nintendo did earlier than you no longer get such sweet deals and if anything you have to pay them for the privledge to develop. It serves your best interest as a developer to have heavy competition too as all three companies would fight over you and your product.
They have been in the console market for ten years now and they still think they can buy/bribe/threaten their way to beating Sony and Nintendo.
Why? It worked on the PC didn't it?
Thats how the inferior Windows won and how Office beat the better Lotus 123 and Wordperfect. It is why the green screen ugly, slow, 640 k ram limited, pc speaker beeping, single tasking, CLI OS DOS won over the supperior Amiga and Macintosh at the time to dismay over people who had multimedia 10 years earlier.
The only reason IE still doesn't have 90% marketshare in the US is because other browsers are free. In Asia no SSL is why IE still has 90% marketshare.
Bribing your way is how to win and what made Microsoft a monopoly by strong arming OEMs and software developers. I think the only reason MS is not so powerful today compared to 10 years ago is because Balmer is much nicer than Gates and they do not strong arm and corrupt things to get their way anymore.
Well increased security is one feature you indirectly linked as a reason to upgrade.:-)
Many businesses who upgraded to Windows 7 had a decrease in downtime and virus infections. Wizards automatically fix many issues without the need of IT if hardware starts failing. Of course they mainly run IE. Corporate users have to use IE as Asa's big mough destroyed any goodwill left for any other browser. Chrome has the same problem with rapid release dates but does have an update tool at least.
IE 9 is a modern browser with HTML 5 support that is on par with Firefox 3.6. IE 10 (by Christmas or next spring) will close the gap fully and be as compliant as Chrome and Firefox 7. That is a big reason to upgrade corporate work stations.
What people forget too is that Oracle purchased PeopleSoft who is Sap's biggest competitor. I think this has less to do with Java more than it does hurting your competitors and making them bleed.
Larry has been known to get pretty obsessive in its war over Microsoft a decade ago. Remember the story of Oracle hiring detectives to sort through garbage at Microsoft anti trust trail in order to file a friend of the court with the bundling of IE? Larry lobbied large amounts of money to make sure Microsoft was split up to Bill Clinton.
That is the cloud. Personally I prefer Oracle as it would at least leave us jobs left to manage the servers.
With Oracle charging outragous and downright barron rates to existing customers the Cloud is promising savings. Eventually Oracle will push customers to this in order to save money and throw out our jobs in the process. But maybe that is not a bad thing.
Larry appears asleep at the wheel on this one. You can hold companies hostage because their data is on your product for so long before someone offers a cheap way out where they can focus on their business rather than I.T. They need to lower their prices
As much as I hate lobbying and monopolies Oracle is right on with 40 billion.
Customers who own massive data warehouses use them. They are the only game in town. DB2 is the only thing that comes close and IBM consultants are not cheap either. SQL Server is not in the same league. No mysql is not a real database. Sure it now has foreign keys, transactions, nested statements, as a brand new cool thing, but Oracle has had all of that for 25 years. Oracle can do data mining and anaylsis of data using dimensions and a whole bunch of things in peta byte scales.
True some stupid corporations love using Oracle Enterprise for a silly small 100 meg database over MySQL but that is up to them. Until things catch up they will remain powerful and prefered. SQL Server is starting too.
It is hard to support as I do not have all the options memorized on XP anymore as I stopped using it 4 years ago. I do not want to write workarounds for IE 7 and delay HTML 5 because XP users are stuck with IE 7 & IE 8 on XP. Firefox is not an option to support anymore anyway.
It is 10 years old. It is like whinning that you need DOS and Windows 3.0 when XP first came out and refusing to upgrade demanding USB drivers be backported to DOS. That is silly.
Keep in mind MS loses money and why Balmer is in trouble. Businesses still run XP and Office 2003 and that costs money as sales growth is small and no longer growing quarter by quarter to make Wall Street happy. They need endless growth to fuel the share price which is Balmers job.
Speaking limits of 2 gigs. I installed Windows 7 on an old laptop that ran Vista/XP and Fedora 13. It has only 2 gigs of ram and let me say it is very very fast with Windows 7. It is not Vista and many newer machines can run Windows 7 with 1 gig of ram as long as they only run Office. XP is not a cash cow if people do not upgrade ever 3 years.
Bill Gates has saved more lives than any man this century. I do not see Steve Jobs fighting malaria or donating to charity. He is not trying to have people like him. They already do as his reputation as CEO when he quit. True Steve Jobs is a better CEO in my opinion, but I would respect him more if he felt that having all that money meant he should put it to good use. I respect Warren Buffet too for donating half his money to the Gates Foundation and promising to give away the rest of his fortune to other events when he retires.
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My guess is this is not a hacker out to steal credit cards, but rather a foreign government like North Korea, China, or even Israel if they are targeting such sites.
North Korea in particular is known to steal money too with World of Warcraft gold scams to give money back to Kim Jong Ill. Facebook and Twitter targeting also indicate spying. China would have a keen interest in this.
Either way this is dangerous and could have been going on for awhile. I agree we need some sort of key pair trusted relationship that is more secure. A CA wont work and my fear is the government (American) would love to be this new authority for a secure DNS like system.
"You have succinctly defined what it is that I don't like about people who buy Windows or iDevices without ever seriously considering the alternatives"
This kind of reminds me of this kind of customer.
A couple years ago I thought it would be a great idea to create a floating city in an expensive area like off San Deigo or San Fransisco where space and price are premium.
If you could make a floating city you could earn 2 - 3 million a house. That is a lot of cash that would yield a great ROI and give price relief to those who live in these metropolitan areas. Just a thought I had.
All you would need is the same rubber foam used to float various structures near the shore. Do it on a massive scale and you make gold.
Knuth teaches goto statements so I wouldn't listen to him or read any of his works. All the other books and any computer science professor will tell you gotos are bad and unstructured.
Seriously that book is loaded. I mean loaded with 10k lines of code! Very detailed oriented if you ever want to dig deep and try some excersizes as well as skip some.
Too bad my ex has my Dietel and Dietel how to program C++ and Java books. Nothing online compares to the detail of these books
I do not understand? I run an AMD too and until last fall I was CPU agnostic. AMDs were more bang for the buck and I wanted a system that was ATI graphics. Are you talking about upgrading mroe often with money saved? Because in 3 to 4 years your system will be slow anyway no matter if you paid $1,000 or $5,000.
I bought a nice 6 core Phenom X6 x1035T. It is underclocked to only 2.6 ghz, but for $450 I got 8 gigs of ram and virtualization to run VMWare with its SSD instructions. With the 6 cores and 8 gigs of ram it rocks to have 3 - 4 VMS running for the price I paid.
With an ATI 5750 that came with it, games run reasonable well too. As soon as I upgrade the PSU I plan to flash the bios so I can clock my cpu to 3.2 ghs. Asus crippled but there are hacks to get around it.
For value, the AMD phemom II is only 4-7% slower and well worth the price. They are just as fast seriously. Intel pays off people ... cough Tomshardware ... cough ... money to find benchmarks and then stretch the graphics to make it look like the Sandy Bridge is like 40% faster. It really is not.
Also the integrated graphics on Bulldozer and Llamo give Intel a run for the money too. Windows 8 tablet UI uses IE 10 for html 5 hardware acceleration. Graphics will be much more important
It can share fine if it uses the same dedicated memory controller without doing an interrupt to the CPU or chipset each time it needs to access ram. That is what crippled the other integrated chipsets.
If it access the ram via the CPU ram controller then the bandwidth is much higher. Bulldozer can do this even quicker with the same memory bus. It will probably get close as a dedicated card since it does not have to wait for the CPU to finish access the ram first since multiple channels are used and you no longer have the issue of waiting for the chipset before it can access the ram like the older integrated solutions.
Not quite as fast but even if it performs as fast as a Nvidia 8600 GTS that will be good for cheap solutions and laptops. My guess is Crysis and World of warcraft mixed with Flash running 1080p will be fine. Crysis maybe at 1280 x 1024 instead of 1080p but that is fine. One slashdotter who owns a Llamo system said he can rum Sims 3 and full screen 1080p video surprisingly fine which shocked him. These are not cutting edge like a dedicated gaming desktop, but for $450 laptop not bad. Certainly with Windows 8, running HTML 5 applets with IE 10 hardware acceleration it will best Intel's offerings easily in user experience in cheap devices.
Since SSL was banned to foreign countries, Japan, China, and South Korea standardized on ActiveX controls for banking and any e-commerce.
It is no longer banned but if you go to sites that measure browswer marketshare you get a marketshare that heavily favors Microsoft. It is why Apple left the Korean market a decade ago with Macs as they were useless for anything internet related in Asia. IE 6 and XP marketshare are much lower than what you hear on slashdot because China and much of Asia skew the results.
I do admit this was a bad decision on government encryption export controls more than it was on MS being abusive forcing itself on others with OEMs as Netscape/Firefox did not have an answer to ActiveX and encrption other than relying on SSL.
The benchmarks I have seen only show a 5% decrease in performance. You wont notice that unless you are running simulations or doing something hardcore. It is not like it is a big drop.
Llamo, on the otherhand has much better graphics compared to an Intel atom .. to hell even a full speed i5! Bulldozer will have even better graphics. If you just run IE 9/10, flash, and Office the AMD llamo and bulldozer will seem faster and less choppy. They can also run games like World of Warcraft as well. Sub notebooks sucks and can do these things and run these games.
If you own a dedicated GPU go open IE 9 with Google video and move the up and down arrows? IE 9 is fluid and smooth compared to any browser. If you have a crappy video card it wont seem any different than Chrome or Firefox.
Windows 8 will be hardware accelerated by video with IE 10 integration and a better integrated GPU that is on par with a dedicated graphics card will be better for average users.
AMD has some nice products out now and the next generation will be great for netbooks and notebooks and teenagers who can finally play more than angry birds on their sub $400 notebook.
I thought the k5 never saw the light of day? K6 was the first AMD success.
Bulldozer might give Intel a run for the money and low to mid end notebook and sub notebook markets. Finally an integrated GPU that is not 7 years behind dedicated video cards. That is a plus for PC games and AMDs graphics are better than Intels.
Gee those delays mean the brand new shiny chips will just hapen to come out with Windows 8. Coincidence?
Not only can you finally ditch that aging Vista or XP machine, with shiny Windows 8 but now you can have a shiny new CPU too!
The idea to ban exclusives deal with anti trust laws.
Sure you might get a sweet deal, but the point is it hurts consumers who want to play the games and are stuck without buying 3 different consoles because of agreements by the makers to limit compeition. The other argument if one console starts winning like Nintendo did earlier than you no longer get such sweet deals and if anything you have to pay them for the privledge to develop. It serves your best interest as a developer to have heavy competition too as all three companies would fight over you and your product.
They have been in the console market for ten years now and they still think they can buy/bribe/threaten their way to beating Sony and Nintendo.
Why? It worked on the PC didn't it?
Thats how the inferior Windows won and how Office beat the better Lotus 123 and Wordperfect. It is why the green screen ugly, slow, 640 k ram limited, pc speaker beeping, single tasking, CLI OS DOS won over the supperior Amiga and Macintosh at the time to dismay over people who had multimedia 10 years earlier.
The only reason IE still doesn't have 90% marketshare in the US is because other browsers are free. In Asia no SSL is why IE still has 90% marketshare.
Bribing your way is how to win and what made Microsoft a monopoly by strong arming OEMs and software developers. I think the only reason MS is not so powerful today compared to 10 years ago is because Balmer is much nicer than Gates and they do not strong arm and corrupt things to get their way anymore.
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Well if you already use Oracle for your data wharehouse and your I.T. department is trained and has licences already then why not use it?
Well increased security is one feature you indirectly linked as a reason to upgrade. :-)
Many businesses who upgraded to Windows 7 had a decrease in downtime and virus infections. Wizards automatically fix many issues without the need of IT if hardware starts failing. Of course they mainly run IE. Corporate users have to use IE as Asa's big mough destroyed any goodwill left for any other browser. Chrome has the same problem with rapid release dates but does have an update tool at least.
IE 9 is a modern browser with HTML 5 support that is on par with Firefox 3.6. IE 10 (by Christmas or next spring) will close the gap fully and be as compliant as Chrome and Firefox 7. That is a big reason to upgrade corporate work stations.
"I am really surprised more lawyers haven't ended up dead. seriously surprised...
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Larry has a billion dollars and could hire an even bigger crime family to go after you.
Remember, use the mob and you owe them a favor. It will be impossible to become clean again.
What people forget too is that Oracle purchased PeopleSoft who is Sap's biggest competitor. I think this has less to do with Java more than it does hurting your competitors and making them bleed.
Larry has been known to get pretty obsessive in its war over Microsoft a decade ago. Remember the story of Oracle hiring detectives to sort through garbage at Microsoft anti trust trail in order to file a friend of the court with the bundling of IE? Larry lobbied large amounts of money to make sure Microsoft was split up to Bill Clinton.
They do have a competion now.
That is the cloud. Personally I prefer Oracle as it would at least leave us jobs left to manage the servers.
With Oracle charging outragous and downright barron rates to existing customers the Cloud is promising savings. Eventually Oracle will push customers to this in order to save money and throw out our jobs in the process. But maybe that is not a bad thing.
Larry appears asleep at the wheel on this one. You can hold companies hostage because their data is on your product for so long before someone offers a cheap way out where they can focus on their business rather than I.T. They need to lower their prices
As much as I hate lobbying and monopolies Oracle is right on with 40 billion.
Customers who own massive data warehouses use them. They are the only game in town. DB2 is the only thing that comes close and IBM consultants are not cheap either. SQL Server is not in the same league. No mysql is not a real database. Sure it now has foreign keys, transactions, nested statements, as a brand new cool thing, but Oracle has had all of that for 25 years. Oracle can do data mining and anaylsis of data using dimensions and a whole bunch of things in peta byte scales.
True some stupid corporations love using Oracle Enterprise for a silly small 100 meg database over MySQL but that is up to them. Until things catch up they will remain powerful and prefered. SQL Server is starting too.
Please let XP die.
It is hard to support as I do not have all the options memorized on XP anymore as I stopped using it 4 years ago. I do not want to write workarounds for IE 7 and delay HTML 5 because XP users are stuck with IE 7 & IE 8 on XP. Firefox is not an option to support anymore anyway.
It is 10 years old. It is like whinning that you need DOS and Windows 3.0 when XP first came out and refusing to upgrade demanding USB drivers be backported to DOS. That is silly.
Keep in mind MS loses money and why Balmer is in trouble. Businesses still run XP and Office 2003 and that costs money as sales growth is small and no longer growing quarter by quarter to make Wall Street happy. They need endless growth to fuel the share price which is Balmers job.
Speaking limits of 2 gigs. I installed Windows 7 on an old laptop that ran Vista/XP and Fedora 13. It has only 2 gigs of ram and let me say it is very very fast with Windows 7. It is not Vista and many newer machines can run Windows 7 with 1 gig of ram as long as they only run Office. XP is not a cash cow if people do not upgrade ever 3 years.
So if someone mysteriously downloaded copyrighted material at Microsoft's New Zealand's office they would get shut down?
What about SCOs?
Bill Gates has saved more lives than any man this century. I do not see Steve Jobs fighting malaria or donating to charity. He is not trying to have people like him. They already do as his reputation as CEO when he quit. True Steve Jobs is a better CEO in my opinion, but I would respect him more if he felt that having all that money meant he should put it to good use. I respect Warren Buffet too for donating half his money to the Gates Foundation and promising to give away the rest of his fortune to other events when he retires.