All hash algorithms have collisions. That's just the nature of the beast. The issue is that a way has been found to create and exploit MD5 collisions. SHA-1 will eventually be a target of something similar, just not today.
Actually, I don't begrudge the athletes their money. It was simply a poor attempt at being funny. BTW, in case you're interested, the average U.S. baseball player's salary is ~$3,000,000 US. That's why the talks of salary capping started.
Baseball players? There's always the matter of competing on pay. Besides, how are those poor, starving players supposed to get wage adjustments to keep up with inflation? At 3% inflation, the players will be loosing $30,000 in raises per year! We're taking food out of their children's mouths! Won't someone please think of the children?!?
I'd say that their legal team would probably bail under this new contract (given that they probably don't expect to win), but then I read the "capped" number. 31 million dollars?!? Isn't that a bit like capping baseball players? i.e. They already make so much money that the cap doesn't matter in many ways other than principle.
My guess is that Microsoft is playing the "But what if the vendor goes out of business?" card with the media manufacturers. By convincing them to go with a "stable" company with a "significant investment in media technologies", Microsoft would be leaving them with no other choice other than Microsoft.
As the AC said, swap cannot be turned off on Windows. (article) If you set the value to zero, Windows will allocate swap space in RAM and use that just as it uses the disk swap. Also, my understanding is that there are several DLLs that Office installs "as part of the OS" which would not appear when running Office programs. Instead, you take the memory hit at system startup or on the first time you start Office.
Task manager only displays the memory that hasn't been swapped out. You could have a program using gigs of memory, and taskmn may only show you a few megs. Actual memory usage is a bit more difficult to track under Windows, and requires the use of special tools.
Please don't feel that I'm being insensitive to your situation. I myself was out of work for a year when my employer closed down shop. Given the experience I had obtained, I figured it would be easy to get a job. It wasn't. I wasn't able to get a job until my old CTO needed someone to clean up the mess at his new workplace.
The trick is that the economic downturn is shaking out all the "get rich quick" kids as well, and it's catching a lot more of them than us. I empathize with your situation, because I myself was there. But there's no stopping the fall of technology, because managers have played the "I need more warm bodies" card for too long. Right now they're playing the "I can find warm bodies in India" card. I expect that one will start falling apart within a few months. Just hang in there and keep looking.:-)
I didn't say all of them were good. I just said they were professionals. The number of truly good programmers is not quantifiable. Some do well under specific circumstances. Others do well under all circumstances. Some just plain suck and should never be allowed near a system. But all are actually professionals in the trade, and aren't in it for the money. (Although that helps.);-)
Mod parent +5 funny. The actual quote was: "Also, data lock-in is becoming a problem." He already stated that the SQL Access component could solve this.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If FileMaker has been good for your school, don't worry about replacing it with a "real" database. Many people don't need all the features of a "real" database, and all they'd get is more complexity and possibility of failure.
Personally, I didn't find Office Space very funny. However, it was prophetic in a way that most people should have listened to. Did they? Nope. Took an economic downturn to beat it into people's heads.
Where once great herds of IT professionals roamed the valley, only a few clusters remain here and there, each skittish any remote lightning flash of resource realignment or rumble of offshoring.
Great herds? Yes. Professionals? No. Previously there was 1 true professional for every thousand "get rich quick" kids. Now the ratio is a bit more like 10:1.
On the bright side, these kids are off to something far more enjoyable. While they were in Technology, they worked long hours for little reward, and were often mistreated and stressed out. Now they work in jobs like construction or plumbing where the hours are fewer and the work more fulfilling. Let this be a lesson: never enter a corporate field unless you're SURE that's what you want.
No mention of the DRM restrictions on the songs...
*Of course* there's no mention! Microsoft isn't going to strut around saying, "we've got a music store like Apple, BUT WE RESTRICT OUR MUSIC EVEN MORE! You'll love it, trust us."
BTW, I have 6 invites. If anyone wants one, I'll happily give them out. I've got nothing better to do with them anyway.
The usefulness of a gadget is irrelavent as long as the public buys them.
Keep in mind that you'll only be selling them up until your competitor makes a more useful version. Anyone remember that the Rio player used to be king before the iPod came along?
Make it useful. Your pocketbook will thank you in the long term.
The "technology hype cycle" is fairly easy to shortcut if you have independent testers *use* the product instead of just releasing it to the market. For example, anyone who *used* the Audrey for any period of time could have told you that it would be a complete flop. It was underpowered, slow, and overall useless. OTOH, Apple made sure that people (especially Jobs himself) *used* the iPod before release. Changes were made based on that usage, and the product was better for it.
Of course, that's no guarantee of success. It's quite possible that the product will fail because people don't "get it". In that case you have to watch what your focus groups do. Do they sort of bumble with the thing, with no idea what they're doing? Would they actually keep using it if they weren't forced to? Do they make use of most of the features, or do they ignore them? Most of this can be found by quiet observation of the user with the device. Don't answer questions. Just let them figure it out.
If there's little that can be done about the complexity, then you're going to need a good advertising campaign. Manuals will help, but they only come *after* the purchase. It's much better to explain why they need the device before purchase so that they'll jump right in with the designed goals in mind.
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They were. AKAIK, it's not here yet. Most other open codecs (like XVid and DivX) depend on other people's patents.
bitch
So much for the dog shows.
hypermart
Hypermart? Google's first result is a simple web hosting service. Is that really so dangerous.
freedom
Let [] ring from sea to shining sea.
unixbox
Better not let anyone find those shell accounts. Use a "safe" OS like Windows Crippled Edition!
bignews
Small results.
boxun
Slashdotters beware!
Well that explains the speech of new Chinese immigrants! They're still suffering from post-filtering syndrome!
;-P
"I no you! Understand?"
All hash algorithms have collisions. That's just the nature of the beast. The issue is that a way has been found to create and exploit MD5 collisions. SHA-1 will eventually be a target of something similar, just not today.
Name one Open Video Codec that doesn't depend on someone's active patents.
Actually, I don't begrudge the athletes their money. It was simply a poor attempt at being funny. BTW, in case you're interested, the average U.S. baseball player's salary is ~$3,000,000 US. That's why the talks of salary capping started.
# Look around
...
There's nothing to see. You're lying on your back.
# Get up
I don't understand.
# Get out of bed
You get out of bed.
# Look around
You see nothing. The lights are off.
Your house is demolished by a bulldozer. You have died. Would you like to play again? (y/n)
I really hate that game. Feel free to frustrate yourself here.
Principles?
Remember who we're dealing with.....
Baseball players? There's always the matter of competing on pay. Besides, how are those poor, starving players supposed to get wage adjustments to keep up with inflation? At 3% inflation, the players will be loosing $30,000 in raises per year! We're taking food out of their children's mouths! Won't someone please think of the children?!?
I'd say that their legal team would probably bail under this new contract (given that they probably don't expect to win), but then I read the "capped" number. 31 million dollars?!? Isn't that a bit like capping baseball players? i.e. They already make so much money that the cap doesn't matter in many ways other than principle.
My guess is that Microsoft is playing the "But what if the vendor goes out of business?" card with the media manufacturers. By convincing them to go with a "stable" company with a "significant investment in media technologies", Microsoft would be leaving them with no other choice other than Microsoft.
As the AC said, swap cannot be turned off on Windows. (article) If you set the value to zero, Windows will allocate swap space in RAM and use that just as it uses the disk swap. Also, my understanding is that there are several DLLs that Office installs "as part of the OS" which would not appear when running Office programs. Instead, you take the memory hit at system startup or on the first time you start Office.
Task manager only displays the memory that hasn't been swapped out. You could have a program using gigs of memory, and taskmn may only show you a few megs. Actual memory usage is a bit more difficult to track under Windows, and requires the use of special tools.
Please don't feel that I'm being insensitive to your situation. I myself was out of work for a year when my employer closed down shop. Given the experience I had obtained, I figured it would be easy to get a job. It wasn't. I wasn't able to get a job until my old CTO needed someone to clean up the mess at his new workplace.
:-)
The trick is that the economic downturn is shaking out all the "get rich quick" kids as well, and it's catching a lot more of them than us. I empathize with your situation, because I myself was there. But there's no stopping the fall of technology, because managers have played the "I need more warm bodies" card for too long. Right now they're playing the "I can find warm bodies in India" card. I expect that one will start falling apart within a few months. Just hang in there and keep looking.
I didn't say all of them were good. I just said they were professionals. The number of truly good programmers is not quantifiable. Some do well under specific circumstances. Others do well under all circumstances. Some just plain suck and should never be allowed near a system. But all are actually professionals in the trade, and aren't in it for the money. (Although that helps.) ;-)
Mod parent +5 funny. The actual quote was: "Also, data lock-in is becoming a problem." He already stated that the SQL Access component could solve this.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If FileMaker has been good for your school, don't worry about replacing it with a "real" database. Many people don't need all the features of a "real" database, and all they'd get is more complexity and possibility of failure.
Personally, I didn't find Office Space very funny. However, it was prophetic in a way that most people should have listened to. Did they? Nope. Took an economic downturn to beat it into people's heads.
Where once great herds of IT professionals roamed the valley, only a few clusters remain here and there, each skittish any remote lightning flash of resource realignment or rumble of offshoring.
Great herds? Yes. Professionals? No. Previously there was 1 true professional for every thousand "get rich quick" kids. Now the ratio is a bit more like 10:1.
On the bright side, these kids are off to something far more enjoyable. While they were in Technology, they worked long hours for little reward, and were often mistreated and stressed out. Now they work in jobs like construction or plumbing where the hours are fewer and the work more fulfilling. Let this be a lesson: never enter a corporate field unless you're SURE that's what you want.
There was a global sig of releif.
We made it through guys! Good job!
*scratches head*
The IT color scheme looks just as bad as ever, to me.
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Quick note: Due to the overwhelming response for invites, I'm now out of them. Sorry. If I get more, I know where to dispose of them. ;-)
No mention of the DRM restrictions on the songs...
*Of course* there's no mention! Microsoft isn't going to strut around saying, "we've got a music store like Apple, BUT WE RESTRICT OUR MUSIC EVEN MORE! You'll love it, trust us."
BTW, I have 6 invites. If anyone wants one, I'll happily give them out. I've got nothing better to do with them anyway.
The iPod has fewer features, thus it's easier to use, thus it's more useful, thus more people buy it. More features == better is a logical fallacy.
And only one had anything like enough storage to hold more than a single album (the Nomad, which I seem to remember was first).
I think you're confusing the Rio with Creative's iPod-like Nomad. The current Nomad has a hard drive that can hold thousands of songs.
The usefulness of a gadget is irrelavent as long as the public buys them.
Keep in mind that you'll only be selling them up until your competitor makes a more useful version. Anyone remember that the Rio player used to be king before the iPod came along?
Make it useful. Your pocketbook will thank you in the long term.
The "technology hype cycle" is fairly easy to shortcut if you have independent testers *use* the product instead of just releasing it to the market. For example, anyone who *used* the Audrey for any period of time could have told you that it would be a complete flop. It was underpowered, slow, and overall useless. OTOH, Apple made sure that people (especially Jobs himself) *used* the iPod before release. Changes were made based on that usage, and the product was better for it.
Of course, that's no guarantee of success. It's quite possible that the product will fail because people don't "get it". In that case you have to watch what your focus groups do. Do they sort of bumble with the thing, with no idea what they're doing? Would they actually keep using it if they weren't forced to? Do they make use of most of the features, or do they ignore them? Most of this can be found by quiet observation of the user with the device. Don't answer questions. Just let them figure it out.
If there's little that can be done about the complexity, then you're going to need a good advertising campaign. Manuals will help, but they only come *after* the purchase. It's much better to explain why they need the device before purchase so that they'll jump right in with the designed goals in mind.