My 1.1ghz processor is plenty fast enough for me, and will remain so for quite some time.
Good for you....but my experience is somewhat different. I have a 1.5Ghz p4, and I wish I had a faster one because processing large quantities of video is a lot of burden on the CPU.
Even transfering video using IEEE1394 to the computer is such a delicate exercise, that I tend to avoid doing more than 30 minutes at a time. Of course I carefully close down all my programs before doing so, and even then it is a very unstable process. Last night I tried twice, and got dropped frames both times after 30 minutes or so.
Premiere runs like a dog, too, unless you have a dual 2.0+ Ghz and 512 Mb of RAM.
AMD's and Intel's fierce competition is driving the CPU market forward, so that consumers enjoy faster, better and cheaper CPU's all the time. To me, it is essential that they keep on going.
Call me old-fashioned but for me, the pound is the symbol for the British currency. The # is a hash.
(note that I am from europe; I know that it's different for the guys in the US)
You certainely have some good points otherwise. I never liked the C# name to start with, let alone F#.
...One of the first nanotech-related breakthroughs consumers will see, for example, is a new type of sunscreen -- expected to start showing up on store shelves within the next year or so -- being perfected by a German company that was discussed, but not named, at the conference.
The sunscreen's manufacturer (represented by one of its lead investors) says the company has mastered the task of making reliably miniscule particles of a substance that can block out the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.
That is a good insight in the type of cars which Iceland will be aiming to be using some time in 2030-2040, as featured on Slashdot last week!
To quote the interesting bit from the original story, "The scheme is backed by DaimlerChrysler, which will build the first buses, together with energy giant Royal Dutch Shell and Norwegian industrial group Norsk Hydro."
In case some readers haven't realised, this is the car!
That's a lot of US references in your post. Unfortunately I happen not to live on the continent, which was also one of the motivations for my post: streamline the standards, so that if/when you move, you don't end-up with equipment you have to leave behind.
To me, Digital TV means so much more than a new class of devices with just more copyrights protection built-in. I don't think that we can escape this entirely, and perhaps there is a compromise in the air. What I am looking for as a consumer, is the following:
For once, screw NTSC, PAL and SECAM. I still can't figure out why various countries chose to have different broadcast signals in the first place. Hopefully Digital TV will make this a moot point, once we all share the same "format" (and it better be good:)
Second, this can also be the occasion for designing a newer DVD format better suited than current DVDs for high-res TV.
Imagine for a moment what a good-looking picture on your big-screen TV might looks like. A picture with shard details and glorious colors. Not like anything you can get from NTSC equipment, and to a lesser degree on PAL/SECAM too.
As you can see, I'm really looking forward to Digital TV. I think these will be every happy times in 5-10 years once the technology will have matured a bit. I just hope that the same mistakes (the ones we did in the past with analog broadcast) will not be repeated..
The point of my post was that it is fairly unlikely that your suid root server application will be surfing the web, download the binary and launch the program. If the infected file is downloaded to your PC and ran, that's exactly because it will be _downloaded_ by some user and ran. If some user != root then you can limit the damage substantially.
Now if you're logged in as root and you download & run the infected file as root, then any of your applications (incl. the suid which you are refering to) will potentially spread the virus further, but that's already beyond the point of initial infection.
So far Symantec has not received any submissions of this virus from customers.
Nonetheless you are encouraged to update your virus definition files to the latest and greatest. And for you who don't have an anti-virus software yet, this was the subliminal message in the announcement that you need to buy one !
(Disclaimer: I use XP as desktop OS, but I've used linux for many years, and use it on a daily basis, just not on my desktop.)
Since you've been using Linux for many years, and in fact every day, why bother putting this disclaimer about also using XP ? I don't see added value here, unless this is a clever Troll.
"It is clear that Red Hat is the 300-pound gorilla in this
market, and the other vendors are all struggling from a revenue and shipment perspective to remain relevant on a worldwide basis"
I don't see technical reasons behind this. In fact, most of the article goes on about market share, revenue, strategy etc., but it remains unclear to me how the vendors are going to tackle the technical issues and what pieces from which distributions will be retained to make this patched-up Linux distro.
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Good for you....but my experience is somewhat different. I have a 1.5Ghz p4, and I wish I had a faster one because processing large quantities of video is a lot of burden on the CPU.
Even transfering video using IEEE1394 to the computer is such a delicate exercise, that I tend to avoid doing more than 30 minutes at a time. Of course I carefully close down all my programs before doing so, and even then it is a very unstable process. Last night I tried twice, and got dropped frames both times after 30 minutes or so.
Premiere runs like a dog, too, unless you have a dual 2.0+ Ghz and 512 Mb of RAM.
AMD's and Intel's fierce competition is driving the CPU market forward, so that consumers enjoy faster, better and cheaper CPU's all the time. To me, it is essential that they keep on going.
(note that I am from europe; I know that it's different for the guys in the US)
You certainely have some good points otherwise. I never liked the C# name to start with, let alone F#.
/forged-pound ;)
I almost feel offended by the name. Doesn't it beg for play-on-words (f*** and the likes).
F# -- the F***ing language
This extract from the documentation suggests acquisition times a lot quicker than the few hours you mention:
The sunscreen's manufacturer (represented by one of its lead investors) says the company has mastered the task of making reliably miniscule particles of a substance that can block out the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.
Hair dye, anyone?
And for those who are wondering who DCX is, it's simply DaimlerChrysler's ticker symbol.
To quote the interesting bit from the original story, "The scheme is backed by DaimlerChrysler, which will build the first buses, together with energy giant Royal Dutch Shell and Norwegian industrial group Norsk Hydro."
In case some readers haven't realised, this is the car!
Did it occur to you how I got the quotes in the first place ? ;)
Hahaha, this one sounds right out of The Matrix. Priceless.
Duh, who would ordes waffles over the internet. Just drive to the nearest waffles outlet and buy one. Or ask your wife/goflfriend to bake you some :-)
That's a lot of US references in your post. Unfortunately I happen not to live on the continent, which was also one of the motivations for my post: streamline the standards, so that if/when you move, you don't end-up with equipment you have to leave behind.
For once, screw NTSC, PAL and SECAM. I still can't figure out why various countries chose to have different broadcast signals in the first place. Hopefully Digital TV will make this a moot point, once we all share the same "format" (and it better be good :)
Second, this can also be the occasion for designing a newer DVD format better suited than current DVDs for high-res TV.
Imagine for a moment what a good-looking picture on your big-screen TV might looks like. A picture with shard details and glorious colors. Not like anything you can get from NTSC equipment, and to a lesser degree on PAL/SECAM too.
As you can see, I'm really looking forward to Digital TV. I think these will be every happy times in 5-10 years once the technology will have matured a bit. I just hope that the same mistakes (the ones we did in the past with analog broadcast) will not be repeated..
Here is the link you were looking for (list of films available in DLP).
Computer world has an article from earlier last month, which has some insight into the issue.
My point exactly as far as the last statement goes. Now I even wonder how they got the virus in the first place.... ?!
Now if you're logged in as root and you download & run the infected file as root, then any of your applications (incl. the suid which you are refering to) will potentially spread the virus further, but that's already beyond the point of initial infection.
Nonetheless you are encouraged to update your virus definition files to the latest and greatest. And for you who don't have an anti-virus software yet, this was the subliminal message in the announcement that you need to buy one !
...not to be logged in as root. At least the typical Linux user can limit the damage this way.
Let the IE lusers suffer !
Oh btw france lost vs. senegal. shame.
Because of the employment of the signetics' proprietary Sanderson-Rabbet Channel the 25120 will provide 50% higher speed than you will obtain.
Err .. mmmkay ??!?!?
Bummer.
So much for pre-announcing the product almost 1 year in advance :-(
:->
Uh uh uh, I see a disturbance in The Force ;)
Since you've been using Linux for many years, and in fact every day, why bother putting this disclaimer about also using XP ? I don't see added value here, unless this is a clever Troll.
Have you heard of these small companies called IBM or Sun Microsystems ?
I don't see technical reasons behind this. In fact, most of the article goes on about market share, revenue, strategy etc., but it remains unclear to me how the vendors are going to tackle the technical issues and what pieces from which distributions will be retained to make this patched-up Linux distro.