Firefox's WebExtension API is a considerable superset of what Chrome provides, and offers much of the power of what old extensions could but without the risks.
Previous add-ons could essentially do anything they wanted to your computer and the spaghetti code required to support them made it difficult to speed up the Gecko engine and lower the resources that it used.
Regardless of whether your numbers or right or wrong, 18ms is a HUGE difference for most internet communications. That's an extra 36ms RTT savings, something that companies around the world spend fortunes on content delivery networks to achieve.
Why title it "Security Researcher" when you clearly submitted a post about yourself? Why not instead title it "I find what I personally think is a fundamental flaw in iOS"?
It's just downright scary as fuck anymore to go to any public event. I look at the school shootings from the late 1990's and 2000's, that 'joker' impersonator who took lives at the Batman movie premiere, Boston marathon bombings, the Ariana Grande concert in London as of late, and now at a fucking Country music concert at Las Vegas? Talk about wanting to just stay at home anymore. Living in the United States or not, I think anyone is going to start second-guessing
It isn't even remotely that scary. Your odds of dying while driving to a public event far exceed your chance of getting shot there. If you're afraid of going to a public event, then you probably shouldn't go anywhere near your automobile.
For such a shockingly low price, you might think that they'll burst into flame at any moment, but both come with a sealed compartment to keep the flames in. And in case your eyebrows were furrowed with concern that a tablet costing less than an avocado toast might wake up in the middle of the night to consume the flesh of your children, Amazon claims that their tablets are checked for hexes, curses, and rabies before leaving the factory, unlike Apple's iPad line.
Firefox should not continue to grow in memory usage like that, especially the e10s builds. My guess is that you have a bad browser extension; I've never seen that with a clean Firefox profile.
No onboard storage.. just two raid1 MicroSD card slots with a battery-backed memory buffer
So not only do you want something that is only a fraction of the speed of modern smartphone NAND storage, but also 1/1,000,000th as reliable? I'm just glad that you're not designing modern smartphones.
Except for the part where it refuses to remember your search preferences, hoisting the entirely useless "all listings" + "best match" search order upon you, again and again. The previous major version of the eBay app was much better in that regards, and they took out default sorting options with the current version.
I'm not sure what 1080p content you have that can't be played at 4MB/sec. An hour-long 1080p h.264-encoded TV show runs at about 2.6GB on average for me, or about.75MB/sec. 4MB/s for one hour is 14.4GB.
My 15" MBP has the 1680x1050 anti-glare screen, which really pushes the usability of some of the OS X widgets. Any 15" MBP can be ordered with it. I don't know if you'd want to go that much higher on any "modern" OS, until they are display resolution independent.
Too small of a dot pitch simply makes most operating systems unusable or irritating -- this box is too small, this text in this section needs to be enlarged, this document needs to be zoomed -- and so the demand for higher resolution displays just isn't there.
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The P1 did go up to 300MHz, but it was only sold in mobile forms, for laptops and what-not.
Well, since you're going for "bang for your buck", here are my personal recommendations:
Receiver: Low-end ES Receiver (V333/V444). Note that the V444 has component inputs, which can be handy - however, your TV (if, like mine, is the 36XBR400 HDTV, has 2 component inputs already)
Speakers are largely a personal matter. For your price range, I recommend the Boston Acoustics Reference Series. (Like the Reference 9000s). Great 5.1 sound for an effective price.
Seriously folks - I really don't want to have to reboot my PC everytime I play a game. We already have something like that, and it is called a "console". Check it out. It works much better than a PC-uber-boot-disk, because nobody could possibly get a boot disk to work for every single piece of hardware out there.
Furthermore, if I was a game developer, would I want to issue a new CD of my game everytime there is a new sound card on the market? (The answer is "no") Crazy kids these days.:P
For every call, you get paid 1.5x your "hourly salary". All calls are considered a minimum of one hour. If you get called three times in the same hour, you get paid for three hours worth of overtime. All calls over one hour are rounded up to the nearest 15 minutes.
So, if I make $60,000/yr, and I get 22 calls during the week, I would make:
Where I work at, we have 50+ Enterprise class machines, including quite a few E6500s. We have not experienced any problems with our servers.
It should be noted, however, that the META group was quite interested in knowing whether or not we were having this issue. Up until the time that they questioned us, we hadn't even heard of the problem. It seems to me that this whole situation, while certainly important for the Sun customers affected, is definitely being overhyped.
First of all, the Vax->Axp and the 68K->PPC change happened before 1995, and second of all, the VAX is Digital, and the 68K/PPC is Motorola/IBM - not Intel.
You do live in a very sheltered world indeed, FatPhil.
Actually, they've done some interesting research on the safety of SUVs. I love pointing this out, because there are quite a few SUV drivers who drive SUVs because they claim they are safer.
Here is what they found:
People who drive SUVs are no more likely to survive than people who just drive cars. However, people who get hit by SUVs are 3x(!) more likely to be killed. Sad, sad.
Actually, IE5 (and IE4 I believe) both have the ability to turn off animated GIFs. If you go to 'Internet Options', under the advanced tab, you'll find an option for 'Play Animations'. If you uncheck it, it will only display the first frame of animated GIFs. It's kind of funky seeing those 'Punch The Monkey and Win $20' ads sitting still. (Still don't win the $20, drats! - one of these days.:P)
Well, with many thousands of dollars into anime at this point, I figure I might as well make some recommendations.
Blue Submarine No. 6 - While the actual anime is mediocre, the computer animation is great. I've actually had e-mails with CmdrTaco about this one - it's now out on DVD, so check it out, being the computer animation put that you are.
The Slayers - Easily my favorite anime. A sort of fantasy/comedy that is just hilarious. It's really lighthearted, and you get really attached to the characters. It's gotten a few recommendations already, and I concur with them. www.inverse.org has some great stuff about it. Heck, even my alias (Mina Inerz) comes from an episode of the Slayers. (The main character's name is Lina Inverse.) Software Sculptors (who produced the TV series, which is better) will be releasing it on DVD later this year.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - An extremely good drama, this anime has become one of the most popular non-mainstream animes ever in the West. ADV has finally started releasing it on DVD, I highly recommend it. It's so deep, you still pick up on new stuff after many viewings.
Vision of Escaflowne - A medeival mecha anime, that has really deep characters, and a fantastic ending that will keep you awake at night.
Oh My Goddess! - A lighthearted romance that is great to watch with your SO.
There are, of course, many more animes, but they're talked about quite a bit already here.
I think you fail to understand that the PC### rating is based on latency.
If a memory has a latency of, say, 5.5ns, and is able to sustain it, then you get the speed from the following equation. 1000/5.5ns = 181MHz (5.5ns is very fast, very expensive RAM - you'll see it on those new hotshot video cards). More commonly, on PC133, you will see 7ns. 1000/7ns = 143MHz (ergo, PC133).
Nobody, to my knowledge, can even manufacture memory that fast. Even the new NVidia cards don't have memory that fast. (1000/4.5ns = 220MHz!)
More than likely, your better Quake performance is due to a more optimized system, better video card, etc, etc, and certainly not due to your main memory (PC133 is faster than PC100). Additionally, the BX chipset on PC100 is a little bit faster than the VIA Apollo Pro133A chipset on PC133 (in some cases). An overclocked BX chipset at 133MHz(!) is incredibly fast.
Cyrix's typical problem, just like AMD had until the Athlon, was its dismal floating point unit. Intel's fully pipelined FPU made the AMD/Cyrix/Winchips, etc, look really bad, and as such, since the Pentium, they've always been "value" CPUs, and not "performance" CPUs. Now I've yet to see official benchmarks on the VIA Joshua processor, but from people who have seen some of the pre-production chips, it doesn't look too promising.
I'm guessing that this chip will be a decent competitor to the K6 series of CPUs, but maybe that's just wishful thinking - Cyrix CPUs have traditionally had some unusual defects in them, that even later steppings didn't fix.
"Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill."
I see that a lot of people are confused by what video card manufacturers mean when their pretty boxes scream 'DVD Acceleration!' on them.
Most of the modern video cards on the market can convert from YUV --> RGB on the fly. This is fairly significant, because to do this in software is about 25% of the decoding process on a software DVD player. As far as I know, the only video card(s) out there that support this under Linux are the Matrox G200/G400/G400MAX cards, using the mga_vid kernel module.
There are a few cards on the market that support what is called 'motion compensation', which eases CPU usage by significant amount, also. ATi cards have, in addition to motion compensation, what is called iDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform) - which eases CPU usage by an additional 5-10%.
These features are not the same as what MPEG-2 decoders do - they do nearly all the work onboard the card, themselves, except a few things, like CSS. Sigma Designs has designed a chip that does CSS in hardware, so we might start seeing hardware decoders from them in the near future for Linux. In the meantime, the best cards to have for Linux are from Matrox. (The G400MAX SGRAM card is the best, actually, for X speed and DVD). Feel free to read the DVD Playing HOWTO for more information. Additionally, README.MGA in the X documentation talks a bit about these cards - "Makes extensive use of the graphics accelerator. This server is very well accelerated, and is one of the fastest XFree86 X servers." Because Matrox has released the specs for the cards, things are coming along real well for it (like Utah-GLX, etc.) Check the cards out!
"Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill."
One the more interesting Intrusion Detection concepts I've seen in recent times is the Deception ToolKit. What this program does is "fakes" a bunch of commonly exploited security holes on your system - even though those holes aren't actually there. This is could prove to be very good at catchin script kiddies who run sendmail break-in scripts, etc. A very interesting concept, indeed - I don't know how well it works, though. Anybody out there with any opinions on this piece of software?
Dear IRS, I am writing to you to cancel my subscription.
I can see that a lot of people are bemoaning the lack of truly original games appearing on the market today.
When I do see 'original' game manufacturer names come up, I think it's more because people are naming off companies that came up with an new and exciting idea for a game-type many years ago, and have the *name recognition* that is so important.
SquareSoft seems to be a name that comes up a lot. SquareSoft and Enix were the two companies that really defined "RPGs" as we know them today. SquareSoft continues to enjoy a lot of name recognition today (and high sales), because they were helped define RPGs many, many years ago. When people want to get a good RPG, they think "SquareSoft", because they've always been a company that has been known for putting out consistantly high quality RPGs. The name recognition is why the Final Fantasy series does so consistantly well - people recognize the name and buy the title. Lesser-known names like Enix (producers of the first *real* RPG for the Nintendo System, Dragon Warrior, and one of the most immersive titles ever, Dragon Warrior II) still do well in Japan - because they have the *name recognition* there that is so important.
I believe the real problem is that there are so many PlayStation games on the market today that it is difficult to find examples of true originality. Game magazine companies, for their part, tend to make the situation worse, because they more often than not, tend to review games created by the better known game companies.
There *have* been extremely original and fun games put out on the market recently. Some titles along this line are "Intelligence Qube" (IQ), "Devil Dice", and "Super Smash Brothers". Yet, most people I know go "Huh?" when I mention these titles because there are so many titles on the market today, that it's difficult to establish that name-brand recognition that I believe, is so important today.
Dear IRS, I am writing to you to cancel my subscription.
I'm interested in finding out if it's even technically feasibly to have programs that can "disable" themselves.
"Push"ing - the software company sees a license key on the internet, and, as such, wants to disable all copies of the software using that key. Most people who are going to give out their license key, and certainly those who are going to steal the key, aren't going to register the software, and if they do, they certainly aren't going to give out their e-mail address. "Push"ing into an e-mail box seems ridiculous - every program would have to have a hook into every e-mail program to check for cancellation messages, or would have to be an e-mail program itself. (What about us who use Webmail?) And I can't see leaving open ports in the software, as they'd have to send out massive amounts of cancellation messages - one to every IP address.
"Pull"ing - everytime the software comes up, it contacts a special server to check for cancellation messages. This would probably be slightly more effective, unfortunately, most people aren't online 24/7, so Microsoft Word 2003 would either refuse to startup unless it could contact the server, or it would just let you in - in which case the pirated key is useless, also.
Either way, I can see both of these techniques being easily stopped by proxies/firewalls/IP Masquaring/etc.
What does everybody else think? Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
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Firefox's WebExtension API is a considerable superset of what Chrome provides, and offers much of the power of what old extensions could but without the risks.
Previous add-ons could essentially do anything they wanted to your computer and the spaghetti code required to support them made it difficult to speed up the Gecko engine and lower the resources that it used.
Regardless of whether your numbers or right or wrong, 18ms is a HUGE difference for most internet communications. That's an extra 36ms RTT savings, something that companies around the world spend fortunes on content delivery networks to achieve.
Why title it "Security Researcher" when you clearly submitted a post about yourself? Why not instead title it "I find what I personally think is a fundamental flaw in iOS"?
It's just downright scary as fuck anymore to go to any public event. I look at the school shootings from the late 1990's and 2000's, that 'joker' impersonator who took lives at the Batman movie premiere, Boston marathon bombings, the Ariana Grande concert in London as of late, and now at a fucking Country music concert at Las Vegas? Talk about wanting to just stay at home anymore. Living in the United States or not, I think anyone is going to start second-guessing
It isn't even remotely that scary. Your odds of dying while driving to a public event far exceed your chance of getting shot there. If you're afraid of going to a public event, then you probably shouldn't go anywhere near your automobile.
For such a shockingly low price, you might think that they'll burst into flame at any moment, but both come with a sealed compartment to keep the flames in. And in case your eyebrows were furrowed with concern that a tablet costing less than an avocado toast might wake up in the middle of the night to consume the flesh of your children, Amazon claims that their tablets are checked for hexes, curses, and rabies before leaving the factory, unlike Apple's iPad line.
Firefox should not continue to grow in memory usage like that, especially the e10s builds. My guess is that you have a bad browser extension; I've never seen that with a clean Firefox profile.
No onboard storage.. just two raid1 MicroSD card slots with a battery-backed memory buffer
So not only do you want something that is only a fraction of the speed of modern smartphone NAND storage, but also 1/1,000,000th as reliable? I'm just glad that you're not designing modern smartphones.
Except for the part where it refuses to remember your search preferences, hoisting the entirely useless "all listings" + "best match" search order upon you, again and again. The previous major version of the eBay app was much better in that regards, and they took out default sorting options with the current version.
I'm not sure what 1080p content you have that can't be played at 4MB/sec. An hour-long 1080p h.264-encoded TV show runs at about 2.6GB on average for me, or about .75MB/sec. 4MB/s for one hour is 14.4GB.
My 15" MBP has the 1680x1050 anti-glare screen, which really pushes the usability of some of the OS X widgets. Any 15" MBP can be ordered with it. I don't know if you'd want to go that much higher on any "modern" OS, until they are display resolution independent.
Too small of a dot pitch simply makes most operating systems unusable or irritating -- this box is too small, this text in this section needs to be enlarged, this document needs to be zoomed -- and so the demand for higher resolution displays just isn't there.
The P1 did go up to 300MHz, but it was only sold in mobile forms, for laptops and what-not.
Well, since you're going for "bang for your buck", here are my personal recommendations:
Receiver: Low-end ES Receiver (V333/V444). Note that the V444 has component inputs, which can be handy - however, your TV (if, like mine, is the 36XBR400 HDTV, has 2 component inputs already)
Speakers are largely a personal matter. For your price range, I recommend the Boston Acoustics Reference Series. (Like the Reference 9000s). Great 5.1 sound for an effective price.
Seriously folks - I really don't want to have to reboot my PC everytime I play a game. We already have something like that, and it is called a "console". Check it out. It works much better than a PC-uber-boot-disk, because nobody could possibly get a boot disk to work for every single piece of hardware out there.
:P
Furthermore, if I was a game developer, would I want to issue a new CD of my game everytime there is a new sound card on the market? (The answer is "no") Crazy kids these days.
My company pays quite well.
2 2 =$951.93/week.
For every call, you get paid 1.5x your "hourly salary". All calls are considered a minimum of one hour. If you get called three times in the same hour, you get paid for three hours worth of overtime. All calls over one hour are rounded up to the nearest 15 minutes.
So, if I make $60,000/yr, and I get 22 calls during the week, I would make:
60000/2080=$28.85.
$28.85*1.5=$43.27.
$43.27*
We feel that it is a pretty fair amount of money. (I'm a Solaris sysadmin)
Where I work at, we have 50+ Enterprise class machines, including quite a few E6500s. We have not experienced any problems with our servers.
It should be noted, however, that the META group was quite interested in knowing whether or not we were having this issue. Up until the time that they questioned us, we hadn't even heard of the problem. It seems to me that this whole situation, while certainly important for the Sun customers affected, is definitely being overhyped.
Ah ha ha. That's funny. :P
First of all, the Vax->Axp and the 68K->PPC change happened before 1995, and second of all, the VAX is Digital, and the 68K/PPC is Motorola/IBM - not Intel.
You do live in a very sheltered world indeed, FatPhil.
Actually, they've done some interesting research on the safety of SUVs. I love pointing this out, because there are quite a few SUV drivers who drive SUVs because they claim they are safer.
Here is what they found:
People who drive SUVs are no more likely to survive than people who just drive cars. However, people who get hit by SUVs are 3x(!) more likely to be killed. Sad, sad.
Actually, IE5 (and IE4 I believe) both have the ability to turn off animated GIFs. If you go to 'Internet Options', under the advanced tab, you'll find an option for 'Play Animations'. If you uncheck it, it will only display the first frame of animated GIFs. It's kind of funky seeing those 'Punch The Monkey and Win $20' ads sitting still. (Still don't win the $20, drats! - one of these days. :P)
Well, with many thousands of dollars into anime at this point, I figure I might as well make some recommendations.
Blue Submarine No. 6 - While the actual anime is mediocre, the computer animation is great. I've actually had e-mails with CmdrTaco about this one - it's now out on DVD, so check it out, being the computer animation put that you are.
The Slayers - Easily my favorite anime. A sort of fantasy/comedy that is just hilarious. It's really lighthearted, and you get really attached to the characters. It's gotten a few recommendations already, and I concur with them. www.inverse.org has some great stuff about it. Heck, even my alias (Mina Inerz) comes from an episode of the Slayers. (The main character's name is Lina Inverse.) Software Sculptors (who produced the TV series, which is better) will be releasing it on DVD later this year.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - An extremely good drama, this anime has become one of the most popular non-mainstream animes ever in the West. ADV has finally started releasing it on DVD, I highly recommend it. It's so deep, you still pick up on new stuff after many viewings.
Vision of Escaflowne - A medeival mecha anime, that has really deep characters, and a fantastic ending that will keep you awake at night.
Oh My Goddess! - A lighthearted romance that is great to watch with your SO.
There are, of course, many more animes, but they're talked about quite a bit already here.
I think you fail to understand that the PC### rating is based on latency.
If a memory has a latency of, say, 5.5ns, and is able to sustain it, then you get the speed from the following equation. 1000/5.5ns = 181MHz (5.5ns is very fast, very expensive RAM - you'll see it on those new hotshot video cards). More commonly, on PC133, you will see 7ns. 1000/7ns = 143MHz (ergo, PC133).
Nobody, to my knowledge, can even manufacture memory that fast. Even the new NVidia cards don't have memory that fast. (1000/4.5ns = 220MHz!)
More than likely, your better Quake performance is due to a more optimized system, better video card, etc, etc, and certainly not due to your main memory (PC133 is faster than PC100). Additionally, the BX chipset on PC100 is a little bit faster than the VIA Apollo Pro133A chipset on PC133 (in some cases). An overclocked BX chipset at 133MHz(!) is incredibly fast.
Cyrix's typical problem, just like AMD had until the Athlon, was its dismal floating point unit. Intel's fully pipelined FPU made the AMD/Cyrix/Winchips, etc, look really bad, and as such, since the Pentium, they've always been "value" CPUs, and not "performance" CPUs. Now I've yet to see official benchmarks on the VIA Joshua processor, but from people who have seen some of the pre-production chips, it doesn't look too promising.
I'm guessing that this chip will be a decent competitor to the K6 series of CPUs, but maybe that's just wishful thinking - Cyrix CPUs have traditionally had some unusual defects in them, that even later steppings didn't fix.
"Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill."
I see that a lot of people are confused by what video card manufacturers mean when their pretty boxes scream 'DVD Acceleration!' on them.
Most of the modern video cards on the market can convert from YUV --> RGB on the fly. This is fairly significant, because to do this in software is about 25% of the decoding process on a software DVD player. As far as I know, the only video card(s) out there that support this under Linux are the Matrox G200/G400/G400MAX cards, using the mga_vid kernel module.
There are a few cards on the market that support what is called 'motion compensation', which eases CPU usage by significant amount, also. ATi cards have, in addition to motion compensation, what is called iDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform) - which eases CPU usage by an additional 5-10%.
These features are not the same as what MPEG-2 decoders do - they do nearly all the work onboard the card, themselves, except a few things, like CSS. Sigma Designs has designed a chip that does CSS in hardware, so we might start seeing hardware decoders from them in the near future for Linux. In the meantime, the best cards to have for Linux are from Matrox. (The G400MAX SGRAM card is the best, actually, for X speed and DVD). Feel free to read the DVD Playing HOWTO for more information. Additionally, README.MGA in the X documentation talks a bit about these cards - "Makes extensive use of the graphics accelerator. This server is very well accelerated, and is one of the fastest XFree86 X servers." Because Matrox has released the specs for the cards, things are coming along real well for it (like Utah-GLX, etc.) Check the cards out!
"Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill."
One the more interesting Intrusion Detection concepts I've seen in recent times is the Deception ToolKit. What this program does is "fakes" a bunch of commonly exploited security holes on your system - even though those holes aren't actually there. This is could prove to be very good at catchin script kiddies who run sendmail break-in scripts, etc. A very interesting concept, indeed - I don't know how well it works, though. Anybody out there with any opinions on this piece of software?
Dear IRS,
I am writing to you to cancel my subscription.
I can see that a lot of people are bemoaning the lack of truly original games appearing on the market today.
When I do see 'original' game manufacturer names come up, I think it's more because people are naming off companies that came up with an new and exciting idea for a game-type many years ago, and have the *name recognition* that is so important.
SquareSoft seems to be a name that comes up a lot. SquareSoft and Enix were the two companies that really defined "RPGs" as we know them today. SquareSoft continues to enjoy a lot of name recognition today (and high sales), because they were helped define RPGs many, many years ago. When people want to get a good RPG, they think "SquareSoft", because they've always been a company that has been known for putting out consistantly high quality RPGs. The name recognition is why the Final Fantasy series does so consistantly well - people recognize the name and buy the title. Lesser-known names like Enix (producers of the first *real* RPG for the Nintendo System, Dragon Warrior, and one of the most immersive titles ever, Dragon Warrior II) still do well in Japan - because they have the *name recognition* there that is so important.
I believe the real problem is that there are so many PlayStation games on the market today that it is difficult to find examples of true originality. Game magazine companies, for their part, tend to make the situation worse, because they more often than not, tend to review games created by the better known game companies.
There *have* been extremely original and fun games put out on the market recently. Some titles along this line are "Intelligence Qube" (IQ), "Devil Dice", and "Super Smash Brothers". Yet, most people I know go "Huh?" when I mention these titles because there are so many titles on the market today, that it's difficult to establish that name-brand recognition that I believe, is so important today.
Dear IRS,
I am writing to you to cancel my subscription.
I'm interested in finding out if it's even technically feasibly to have programs that can "disable" themselves.
"Push"ing - the software company sees a license key on the internet, and, as such, wants to disable all copies of the software using that key. Most people who are going to give out their license key, and certainly those who are going to steal the key, aren't going to register the software, and if they do, they certainly aren't going to give out their e-mail address. "Push"ing into an e-mail box seems ridiculous - every program would have to have a hook into every e-mail program to check for cancellation messages, or would have to be an e-mail program itself. (What about us who use Webmail?) And I can't see leaving open ports in the software, as they'd have to send out massive amounts of cancellation messages - one to every IP address.
"Pull"ing - everytime the software comes up, it contacts a special server to check for cancellation messages. This would probably be slightly more effective, unfortunately, most people aren't online 24/7, so Microsoft Word 2003 would either refuse to startup unless it could contact the server, or it would just let you in - in which case the pirated key is useless, also.
Either way, I can see both of these techniques being easily stopped by proxies/firewalls/IP Masquaring/etc.
What does everybody else think?
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]