I happen to have witnessed personally that Firefox 5 cannot run the PDF Forge toolbar while 4 could. I just ran into that problem at my work for the few firefox users. So it is technically possible considering the huge coincidental timing of that.
To answer your question, the processing power isn't very close but the graphics get around double the framerate on average in a game at 1024x768. But that's around 40 FPS compares to 20 FPS on average. If you go any bigger on resolution, it fails. It got almost double the score on benchmark numbers in 3Dmark as well. So yeah, it supports DX11 unlike intel but it's not going to be pretty. So that brings it into what other reviewers have called the "barely playable" area as far as modern gaming goes. I think anyone buying it would be playing flash and java games though but what I really want to know is how it does at HD on netflix, hulu, and youtube and whether or not it can play blu-ray decently because that would be the only thing making it worth it. Other than that it's some sort of obscure low power, low heat gaming build chip or something I've never heard of anyone wanting to build. If the price comes down, it could make a really nice netflix/blu-ray media box for your TV though that can also play basic games.
They would also have to fake the size/duration of the data sent and the interval though. It would likely match some sort of recognizeable pattern. Years ago I heard about encrypted data being recognizeable to a specific software suite because of intervals and data sizes combined. Also, I'm no networking expert but that type of encryption doesn't mask the target IP, just the sending one, right?
Oh and the MBR being invisible to the OS is BS. Avast, Combofix, Malwarebytes, the fixMBR utility built into windows, and at least a dozen other tools I know of can detect malicious MBR changes. In fact, it's such a simplistic location that it's almost impossible to hide a virus there and the virus is helpless against bootable utilities like BartPE and Knoppix.
Well, what's he going to do while he's out on bail without his Xbox? Let me run it through a high tech AI simulator.....okay, the most likely candidates are:
1. nothing
2. steal an Xbox
and for some reason a distant third...
3. look for leprochauns
The reason I'm not even considering cloud technology at my company is that we have a 1000 Mbps connection from computer to server right now and an offsite cloud would be 2 Mbps and we just upgraded to that upload speed 2 weeks ago. It's only 10Mbps down too. So forget the usage cap of the cloud, I need my data faster from it in the first place before it's even remotely useable! I think if a company can afford a 100Mbps symmetrical internet connection or something, they have enough money to own their servers instead of going with some cloud solution. I hear it's mostly small IT dept-less companies (and buzzword and trend crazy bosses at medium to large companies).
The answer is no. You can't compete with nonprofit pricing or worse. The worst thing is, it would instantly skyrocket the price of internet that's actually good like what I and most slashdotters want. What if they just tax it and give it out for free? My brother is on a "free" internet connection with everyone in his 20 or so room apartment and the speeds are up and down and some jackass keeps jamming up the router, probably with too many peer to peer connections. I know my linksys sure likes to throw a fit under those conditions.
So yeah, cheap or free public internet would take away soooo many customers who can barely pay the ISP what they do now because they see the internet as a need. You cut any company's customer base in half and it's not going to be pretty.
But notepad hasn't changed in like 15 years lol. In fact, it really hasn't changed since literal notepads centuries ago. Though Thomas Jefferson wasn't known for using them to write HTML.
But seriously, all drag and drop design suites in the world generate garbage code. Everything should be done by hand coding if you want your website to actually look right and work correctly. Trying to resize and arrange things in an IDE is just as slow as typing it precisely the first time by hand. But the annoyances like syncronization management, link management, repetetive or tedious tasks, CSS realtime context popups as you type, and possibly realtime accurate previewing should be handled by a program. I'd say find the simplest program to do it and stick with it basically forever. We're stuck with Golive CS1 at my work and I'm used to Dreamweaver CS3 but who cares? I don't care if Golive defaults to font tags, old bold tags, and paragraph tags and doesn't know what half the CSS properties are, I'm typing them in myself by hand. Honestly, CS2 doesn't have any licensing hangups and CS3 isn't much worse so I'd just get dreamweaver and sit on it for a decade. The autocad designers still use photoshop elements 3 without major issues and 9 is out now. Just because a new version came out doesn't mean you need to stop using your old one so unless they force you (which Adobe is famous for not doing) then you're good to go with what you got. Coincidentally we did just order some copies of Photoshop Elements 9 just today but still:-P
I always wondered who exactly is in charge over there. It's a multimillion or maybe multibillion dollar company that does 2 things and they can't seem to quite get a good grasp on either of them. How about instead of just an instant queue, you get an instant queue and a favorites list? You know, since 99% of people are using it as a favorites list already. Obvious improvements like that make me wonder if they even have a research department looking into what their customers even want. But just like this latest "upgrade," everything they seem to do feels an awful lot like one dumbass boss thinking up an idea that seems smart to him and then telling everyone to implement it.
That is absolutely and utterly not true. Think about what kind of numbers it would take to get an average that high and compare it to reality of what demographics are known to play games and you won't even need to read the article to know it's BS. Also, at the time of this posting, you can't read the article because this story doesn't link to one. Is it April Fools day already?
Yes, I play Dungeons and Dragons Online and most people are 20-40 and it's great because kids get really annoying in games (I'm 23 btw) but since practically every teenager plays video games, they would drive the actual calculated average to around 20 at the highest, not 37. 37 year old gamers exist, they're just not the average.
It's never ever ever ever ever going to happen. It takes more energy to go to another planet and get the fuel than you would ever get from the fuel. To simply accelerate the mass of the helium itself to a decent speed takes such a huge portion of the energy it contains, possibly more actually, that it would be more expensive than any other energy source ever invented. You could launch coal into space from earth for cheaper and run a steam powered spaceship for cheaper than dragging gas back from a distant planet.
I have a theory about this. Hmmm, energy is a hot topic right now. Getting lots of energy gets attention from the media and government. NASA is getting de-funded. I think this entire thing is an exaggeration to get more space travel funded.
I looked into existing hybrid SSDs for notebooks lately and was scared off by piles of negative reviews. Most now are 4 GB flash, 250+ GB mechanical and it intelligently determines what you open most often and transfers it to the flash section. Apparently that causes poor performance in certain circumstances, unpredictable performance in all circumstances, and lots and lots and lots of crashes and blue screens. If they got all that taken care of and upped it from 4 GB to 60 GB this would be a nice solution but for $350 I'd just get a 160GB or bigger SSD! What an insane price point even for a PCI-E version!
Also, the price difference in motherboards is huge. I have a graphics card in PCI-E 1 of course and my board has just one x16 slot. Needing a 2nd 16x or even 8x PCI-E slot means around double the price on average. So if it went from a $90 board to a $180 board, you might as well have just bought an even higher capacity SSD for the same price. It would work with non-graphical computers but with SSDs, quite a few are gaming computers. I think I'm better off getting one of those 400MB/sec+ 32-60 GB SSDs and installing my games on it. Most new ones support that. My boot time would still be crap but my 3D models would skin ultra fast and the load times would be really quick. Now that's a hybrid system.
I've got a crazy question to throw out there. Which do you think is easier? Design a motherboard capable of disguisesing a 4 core chip as a 1 core chip as far as the software sees it and then splits off the workload automatically across all cores
or
make every programmer in the entire world working on any multithreaded application jump through a ridiculous amount of hoops and headcahes to get their software to run properly.
Now they're both incredibly difficult but I still think it's sort of one sided. Seriously, why has nobody attempted to develop something like this yet? Making life difficult for thousands of programmers compared to making some weird CPU virtualization technique that manages to properly manage threads and not blue screen the OS due to memory sharing violations and then making a ton of money on that exact technology...well I think that sort of spells it out.
Hmmm, I wonder what the cost of a proper IT security system would be? I bet less than $170 million. From what I heard about some of their security issues, the price tag would basically have been "free" for patching some of their blatant holes. I believe also the price tag on top level management pulling their heads out of their asses and stopping kidding themselves about their pathetic state of security would also be $0 because that's pretty intangible and mostly mental lol. Let's hope they still have the budget for that.
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I happen to have witnessed personally that Firefox 5 cannot run the PDF Forge toolbar while 4 could. I just ran into that problem at my work for the few firefox users. So it is technically possible considering the huge coincidental timing of that.
To answer your question, the processing power isn't very close but the graphics get around double the framerate on average in a game at 1024x768. But that's around 40 FPS compares to 20 FPS on average. If you go any bigger on resolution, it fails. It got almost double the score on benchmark numbers in 3Dmark as well. So yeah, it supports DX11 unlike intel but it's not going to be pretty. So that brings it into what other reviewers have called the "barely playable" area as far as modern gaming goes. I think anyone buying it would be playing flash and java games though but what I really want to know is how it does at HD on netflix, hulu, and youtube and whether or not it can play blu-ray decently because that would be the only thing making it worth it. Other than that it's some sort of obscure low power, low heat gaming build chip or something I've never heard of anyone wanting to build. If the price comes down, it could make a really nice netflix/blu-ray media box for your TV though that can also play basic games.
They would also have to fake the size/duration of the data sent and the interval though. It would likely match some sort of recognizeable pattern. Years ago I heard about encrypted data being recognizeable to a specific software suite because of intervals and data sizes combined. Also, I'm no networking expert but that type of encryption doesn't mask the target IP, just the sending one, right?
Oh and the MBR being invisible to the OS is BS. Avast, Combofix, Malwarebytes, the fixMBR utility built into windows, and at least a dozen other tools I know of can detect malicious MBR changes. In fact, it's such a simplistic location that it's almost impossible to hide a virus there and the virus is helpless against bootable utilities like BartPE and Knoppix.
Well, what's he going to do while he's out on bail without his Xbox? Let me run it through a high tech AI simulator.....okay, the most likely candidates are:
1. nothing
2. steal an Xbox
and for some reason a distant third...
3. look for leprochauns
The reason I'm not even considering cloud technology at my company is that we have a 1000 Mbps connection from computer to server right now and an offsite cloud would be 2 Mbps and we just upgraded to that upload speed 2 weeks ago. It's only 10Mbps down too. So forget the usage cap of the cloud, I need my data faster from it in the first place before it's even remotely useable! I think if a company can afford a 100Mbps symmetrical internet connection or something, they have enough money to own their servers instead of going with some cloud solution. I hear it's mostly small IT dept-less companies (and buzzword and trend crazy bosses at medium to large companies).
The answer is no. You can't compete with nonprofit pricing or worse. The worst thing is, it would instantly skyrocket the price of internet that's actually good like what I and most slashdotters want. What if they just tax it and give it out for free? My brother is on a "free" internet connection with everyone in his 20 or so room apartment and the speeds are up and down and some jackass keeps jamming up the router, probably with too many peer to peer connections. I know my linksys sure likes to throw a fit under those conditions.
So yeah, cheap or free public internet would take away soooo many customers who can barely pay the ISP what they do now because they see the internet as a need. You cut any company's customer base in half and it's not going to be pretty.
But notepad hasn't changed in like 15 years lol. In fact, it really hasn't changed since literal notepads centuries ago. Though Thomas Jefferson wasn't known for using them to write HTML. :-P
But seriously, all drag and drop design suites in the world generate garbage code. Everything should be done by hand coding if you want your website to actually look right and work correctly. Trying to resize and arrange things in an IDE is just as slow as typing it precisely the first time by hand. But the annoyances like syncronization management, link management, repetetive or tedious tasks, CSS realtime context popups as you type, and possibly realtime accurate previewing should be handled by a program. I'd say find the simplest program to do it and stick with it basically forever. We're stuck with Golive CS1 at my work and I'm used to Dreamweaver CS3 but who cares? I don't care if Golive defaults to font tags, old bold tags, and paragraph tags and doesn't know what half the CSS properties are, I'm typing them in myself by hand. Honestly, CS2 doesn't have any licensing hangups and CS3 isn't much worse so I'd just get dreamweaver and sit on it for a decade. The autocad designers still use photoshop elements 3 without major issues and 9 is out now. Just because a new version came out doesn't mean you need to stop using your old one so unless they force you (which Adobe is famous for not doing) then you're good to go with what you got. Coincidentally we did just order some copies of Photoshop Elements 9 just today but still
I always wondered who exactly is in charge over there. It's a multimillion or maybe multibillion dollar company that does 2 things and they can't seem to quite get a good grasp on either of them. How about instead of just an instant queue, you get an instant queue and a favorites list? You know, since 99% of people are using it as a favorites list already. Obvious improvements like that make me wonder if they even have a research department looking into what their customers even want. But just like this latest "upgrade," everything they seem to do feels an awful lot like one dumbass boss thinking up an idea that seems smart to him and then telling everyone to implement it.
That is absolutely and utterly not true. Think about what kind of numbers it would take to get an average that high and compare it to reality of what demographics are known to play games and you won't even need to read the article to know it's BS. Also, at the time of this posting, you can't read the article because this story doesn't link to one. Is it April Fools day already?
Yes, I play Dungeons and Dragons Online and most people are 20-40 and it's great because kids get really annoying in games (I'm 23 btw) but since practically every teenager plays video games, they would drive the actual calculated average to around 20 at the highest, not 37. 37 year old gamers exist, they're just not the average.
It's never ever ever ever ever going to happen. It takes more energy to go to another planet and get the fuel than you would ever get from the fuel. To simply accelerate the mass of the helium itself to a decent speed takes such a huge portion of the energy it contains, possibly more actually, that it would be more expensive than any other energy source ever invented. You could launch coal into space from earth for cheaper and run a steam powered spaceship for cheaper than dragging gas back from a distant planet.
I have a theory about this. Hmmm, energy is a hot topic right now. Getting lots of energy gets attention from the media and government. NASA is getting de-funded. I think this entire thing is an exaggeration to get more space travel funded.
I looked into existing hybrid SSDs for notebooks lately and was scared off by piles of negative reviews. Most now are 4 GB flash, 250+ GB mechanical and it intelligently determines what you open most often and transfers it to the flash section. Apparently that causes poor performance in certain circumstances, unpredictable performance in all circumstances, and lots and lots and lots of crashes and blue screens. If they got all that taken care of and upped it from 4 GB to 60 GB this would be a nice solution but for $350 I'd just get a 160GB or bigger SSD! What an insane price point even for a PCI-E version!
Also, the price difference in motherboards is huge. I have a graphics card in PCI-E 1 of course and my board has just one x16 slot. Needing a 2nd 16x or even 8x PCI-E slot means around double the price on average. So if it went from a $90 board to a $180 board, you might as well have just bought an even higher capacity SSD for the same price. It would work with non-graphical computers but with SSDs, quite a few are gaming computers. I think I'm better off getting one of those 400MB/sec+ 32-60 GB SSDs and installing my games on it. Most new ones support that. My boot time would still be crap but my 3D models would skin ultra fast and the load times would be really quick. Now that's a hybrid system.
I've got a crazy question to throw out there. Which do you think is easier? Design a motherboard capable of disguisesing a 4 core chip as a 1 core chip as far as the software sees it and then splits off the workload automatically across all cores
or
make every programmer in the entire world working on any multithreaded application jump through a ridiculous amount of hoops and headcahes to get their software to run properly.
Now they're both incredibly difficult but I still think it's sort of one sided. Seriously, why has nobody attempted to develop something like this yet? Making life difficult for thousands of programmers compared to making some weird CPU virtualization technique that manages to properly manage threads and not blue screen the OS due to memory sharing violations and then making a ton of money on that exact technology...well I think that sort of spells it out.
Is the future theft of your data still included for free with that deal though? hehehehe.
Hmmm, I wonder what the cost of a proper IT security system would be? I bet less than $170 million. From what I heard about some of their security issues, the price tag would basically have been "free" for patching some of their blatant holes. I believe also the price tag on top level management pulling their heads out of their asses and stopping kidding themselves about their pathetic state of security would also be $0 because that's pretty intangible and mostly mental lol. Let's hope they still have the budget for that.