Kudos to Apple for standing up to a group of people who are responsible for a large part of the success that the iPhone has achieved. I'll admit i didn't think apple had it in them. can you imagine the iphone without apps, it would be terrible.
I think the high cost is good thing. It creates a strong business case for security. companies will only take information security seriously when 1. there a very real cost associated 2. the cost of strong information security is less than the costs of loosing information. Earned value to the rescue! [Probability of getting hacked] * [cost of hack (170 million)] [cost of infoSec department]
I have not data to back this up with, but it seems macs have taken off in the last few years in web development shops. not just for front-end graphic designers, but for back end coders too.
While hardware updates can and will have an positive impact on performance, i think that gains in software efficiency can have impacts that are magnitudes higher. for instance if you cpu is running at a higher clock speed then that will result in more instructions per time period. but if an algorithm goes from O(n^2) to O( log n) then the number commands executed will result in a speed increase that is a whole lot more than your 10 % hardware boost helped. note that this is only really beneficial for large commands set. it also has a benefit of being instantly available to everyone with an update and doesn’t require me to buy more stuff.
They need give software a chance to catch up. Hardware is not the limiting factor anymore. It doesn’t take much crappy programming to trip you up when you are trying to render billions of pixels consistently within a small window of time, throwing in some network latency for good measure.
how many I phones do you think that people bring into an office on any given day. network staff let them in because one day the CEO complains about not being able to update his linked-in status from his iphone and the practice of letting people connect anything to the network spreads to the rest of the company. it is a generally overlooked part of network security and it is only a matter of time before black hats utilize it as a vector of attack. mobile devices have to be thought of as a rouge laptop or server on your network because at the end of the day they are all the same. just a computer.
This is old research. I haven't read the article so they might be using a new technique, but computer scientists have been looking at this for years. the success rate is reasonably good if i remember correctly too. I think it its mostly based on time between specific key presses. I would also think this would work better when someone is 'out-of-it' as a result just waking up, or being drunk and your typing is more muscle memory than thinking.
When is the last time your cable company was 'clear' in your Terms of Service Agreement. I haven't read mine in a while, but when we first upgraded from dial up, the 'guaranteed' speed wasn't much more than what we had previously. That was a while ago so maybe they changed their polices. =P if you are individual (non-business plan) i wouldn't be surprise if they only commit to you being able to connect to the Internet most of the time.
Might a dhcp fixture might assign ip address its own bulbs? I might want to have a fixture turn on only 2 of 4 bulbs or maybe ping all the bulbs i have address for to see if any are broken, or maybe add rows of bulbs for something like a extensible chandelier. just a thought. i suppose the just sending commands / queries to the fixtures would also work.
I don't think anyone would believe that the fact agency would be 100% correct ether but one would hope for a reasonably high level of correctness. (the definition of correct will very from person to person too)
But Wikipidia encapsulates the major premises of the argument. Independent, it has citations, and it is suppose to be fact neutral. The last premise is debatable but, my reasoning comes from the fact that it is an encyclopedia at its core. Maybe a few improvements can be added like "facts" / entries had to have citations, and facts have to be approved by at least 2 people would better encompass the idea.
Because its not your data...
Just as you don't own your music, copy of MS software, facebook data, instant messages, and most things you put on the Internet.
How is this still news. Information about your personal habits, purchases, and movements is valuable. So companies are going to collected it and sell it. That is what companies are suppose to do. make money. I think we are being a little naive when we are surprised that this is happening. No one seems to care to follow their congressmen who create the environment for this to happen, but are mad when things don't go our way.
These types of errors are bound to keep happening. Software is to large to find and fix everything. Not saying that it is right, or developers should give up, or software should generally be more secure than it is. But maybe we as users should keep this in mind when we put anything up on the Internet. Especially when dealing with sites like facebook.
A lot of companies don't operate outside the US because it is hard to do. As previous posts have noted law and tax structure grow exponentially when working world wide. If it was easy I'm sure Google would love to make their products available everywhere, just as Nissan and car resellers would have loved to import skylines into the united states, but they don't for some of the same reasons. its hard to make software conform to everyones laws.
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correction '..for a group of people'
Kudos to Apple for standing up to a group of people who are responsible for a large part of the success that the iPhone has achieved. I'll admit i didn't think apple had it in them. can you imagine the iphone without apps, it would be terrible.
I think the high cost is good thing. It creates a strong business case for security. companies will only take information security seriously when 1. there a very real cost associated 2. the cost of strong information security is less than the costs of loosing information. Earned value to the rescue! [Probability of getting hacked] * [cost of hack (170 million)] [cost of infoSec department]
I have not data to back this up with, but it seems macs have taken off in the last few years in web development shops. not just for front-end graphic designers, but for back end coders too.
While hardware updates can and will have an positive impact on performance, i think that gains in software efficiency can have impacts that are magnitudes higher. for instance if you cpu is running at a higher clock speed then that will result in more instructions per time period. but if an algorithm goes from O(n^2) to O( log n) then the number commands executed will result in a speed increase that is a whole lot more than your 10 % hardware boost helped. note that this is only really beneficial for large commands set. it also has a benefit of being instantly available to everyone with an update and doesn’t require me to buy more stuff.
They need give software a chance to catch up. Hardware is not the limiting factor anymore. It doesn’t take much crappy programming to trip you up when you are trying to render billions of pixels consistently within a small window of time, throwing in some network latency for good measure.
how many I phones do you think that people bring into an office on any given day. network staff let them in because one day the CEO complains about not being able to update his linked-in status from his iphone and the practice of letting people connect anything to the network spreads to the rest of the company. it is a generally overlooked part of network security and it is only a matter of time before black hats utilize it as a vector of attack. mobile devices have to be thought of as a rouge laptop or server on your network because at the end of the day they are all the same. just a computer.
...they shall pick the standard. as always.
Turn off GeoLocation.
I think that is just every resume
i shed a tear as i read and understood the reference :P
This is old research. I haven't read the article so they might be using a new technique, but computer scientists have been looking at this for years. the success rate is reasonably good if i remember correctly too. I think it its mostly based on time between specific key presses. I would also think this would work better when someone is 'out-of-it' as a result just waking up, or being drunk and your typing is more muscle memory than thinking.
When is the last time your cable company was 'clear' in your Terms of Service Agreement. I haven't read mine in a while, but when we first upgraded from dial up, the 'guaranteed' speed wasn't much more than what we had previously. That was a while ago so maybe they changed their polices. =P if you are individual (non-business plan) i wouldn't be surprise if they only commit to you being able to connect to the Internet most of the time.
my apologies for grammar. hope you get the idea.
Might a dhcp fixture might assign ip address its own bulbs? I might want to have a fixture turn on only 2 of 4 bulbs or maybe ping all the bulbs i have address for to see if any are broken, or maybe add rows of bulbs for something like a extensible chandelier. just a thought. i suppose the just sending commands / queries to the fixtures would also work.
I believe this falls into a class of the traveling salesman problem witch is np complete.
I don't think anyone would believe that the fact agency would be 100% correct ether but one would hope for a reasonably high level of correctness. (the definition of correct will very from person to person too)
But Wikipidia encapsulates the major premises of the argument. Independent, it has citations, and it is suppose to be fact neutral. The last premise is debatable but, my reasoning comes from the fact that it is an encyclopedia at its core. Maybe a few improvements can be added like "facts" / entries had to have citations, and facts have to be approved by at least 2 people would better encompass the idea.
How many users is that? I had trouble finding figures for the total number of android users.
or captain. kinda loses its comedic punch with a misspelling.
...so a starship caption can come back in time and save the world from an ambiguous dark-matter like blob from space.
Because its not your data...
Just as you don't own your music, copy of MS software, facebook data, instant messages, and most things you put on the Internet.
How is this still news. Information about your personal habits, purchases, and movements is valuable. So companies are going to collected it and sell it. That is what companies are suppose to do. make money. I think we are being a little naive when we are surprised that this is happening. No one seems to care to follow their congressmen who create the environment for this to happen, but are mad when things don't go our way.
http://xkcd.com/552/
These types of errors are bound to keep happening. Software is to large to find and fix everything. Not saying that it is right, or developers should give up, or software should generally be more secure than it is. But maybe we as users should keep this in mind when we put anything up on the Internet. Especially when dealing with sites like facebook.
A lot of companies don't operate outside the US because it is hard to do. As previous posts have noted law and tax structure grow exponentially when working world wide. If it was easy I'm sure Google would love to make their products available everywhere, just as Nissan and car resellers would have loved to import skylines into the united states, but they don't for some of the same reasons. its hard to make software conform to everyones laws.