hopefully it's the "password protection". If they implemented it correctly, it wouldn't be static or easily derived from an algorithm; otherwise eavesdropping on the kill message traffic would allow an attacker to kill all the tags in a store. A crypto engine in the tags themselves would work (the best solution), or terminals would need to be connected to a kill-password-database. Or, the password scheme may just suck. I'll be on the lookout for the implementation details...
I think you're essentially right -- it's not a license terms change per se -- but it effectively changes the program from unlimited-clients to just one client. While enforced as the lack of a software feature, it totally changes the pricing model. The EULA connection comes in because it is the only place where you could learn about this feature-downgrade, and the fact that you could only read the EULA once the software was purchased. I don't think it's the "legally-binding" part of the EULA that's of concern; it seems like the long text of the EULA was just a convenient place to hide this notice during the install process.
Can you get back to the previous version & be out just the $99, or is the upgrade process non-reversible? As software becomes more network-centric (where not all of it resides on your PC alone, but some key is on the mfg's server), this may become harder for a user to do.
Nice catch, but you also missed the old-school method of detecting a fake: You would think it would take time to mate the two planes and then have the photographer take the "after" picture. But no time elapsed: none of the shadows moved, and also none of the planes at this busy airport did, either.
Also, the camera didn't move: I'm sure they took pictures from many angles - what are the chances that the last unmated picture and the first mated picture were the best ones?
Ok, I found the link: extremetech reports this and my precious ee times was just plain wrong. Thanks. The datasheet said that 80W was the target power, which I assumed was for the processor but it's actually the target for the power supply. That's a lot of head room they spec'ed out. Since they are going after the server market, I guess we won't get any accurate numbers in spec sheets until they try to tackle the mobile market.
Here's a good (but dated) article explaining this feature. The short answer: they used encryption plus security-through-obscurity (no internal documentation!). This would be cool to hack for good, too -- imagine if you ran one major application that could be sped up with one additional specialized instruction!
This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but it passed unanimously in both the house and senate. Special interests bought both sides; no one party has a lock on serving the people.
Ah, I'll just have to wait for my legislators to be replaced.
Target CPU core power: 80.6W Target maximum thermal power: 84.7W
I wish it was only 40 watts! Where did you find this number - was it an actual measurement? If so, was it at 100% cpu load, idle, or midway?
I thought this was a little low (esp. compared to my athlons), and didn't actually look it up until I ran across this EETimes article that claims 89 Watts for the AMD64 240.
And my experience is that they typically don't see the products until a few weeks after they've been announced. Jobs: you got me all excited about the 17" notebook; I should be able to drive to your store the next day and see the floor model. After 3 weeks and people tend to lose enthusiasm. How hard can it be to send 20 fed-ex packages with the new floor models at the exact moment of your announcement?
Yeah, I know they probably aren't made yet and you want to get the announcement to coincide with some major event, but its far more fun to go touch the stuff right away.
Google is exploding that strategy by taking advantage of the basic strength of the Internet: the ability to go instantly from one place to any other at no cost beyond the basic connection.
Well, at no cost besides yer personal info, like your income +/-5K, age, gender, zip code, job title, and an offer to get spam from yesmail. Imagine if every new site you browsed to ask for this -- yikes!
Admining googles' server machines is waaay different than admining user machines. There are a lot of things that make this simpler:
- less variety of hardware. No Geforce 8 to download drivers for, no 1394. - Lots of machines. Actually, they could have one person specialize on each exact type of machine they use (not like they'd be substatially different though) - All machines run the same software. No registry hacking, just copy a master image onto the drive. No funky firewalls needed, no custom networking config. - No data recovery. No accidently deleted files, no missing icons; even trashed drives can be put into the dumpster. - No time penalties. Got 10 machines to fix? No "bob in marketing is sitting on his hands until you fix this", a broken machine could sit a month with no ill effects.
So, a rough estimate: Assume a MTBF of 6 months (kind of low, but this has to include scheduled upgrades), and a mean fix time of 1 hour (find the server, unrack, swap parts, reclone [done in parallel], bolt back together, reinstall, and test), a single admin could handle 1000 machines. And remember, they probably have all sorts of methods to optimize problem detection, isolation, and fix time. (or, like the cringely article, they may not really fix machines)
I had the nelsonic pacman watch with the joystick. It came with 4 different colored joysticks, mainly because they were easy to break. This used 2 LCDs on top of each other - one for the time, and one for the game. The gameplay was good - much better than the timex version that had a smaller screen. Plus, the nelsonic version had 2 game play modes- fixed walls, and randomly moving walls. But, only the timex had the real pacman music theme that was so catchy at the time.
The Polara Refrigerated Range is the same, but is a convection oven rather than a microwave. It's got a real compressor, and is available in stores now!
Make sure you've got plenty of airflow to the back - no fun hooking it up, only to find that all that pressured air behind it makes it rocket out of your nook!
No, seriously, make sure that it doesn't overheat - either a vent back there, a vent above, or airflow in/out of the front/side.
followthemoney. Most alcohol consumed by minors is paid for legitimately. If businesses had to pay $2000 for drunk-in-public, dwi, or under-age-consumption arrest, you'd find beer companys a little more concerned. And cops, too.
I can't stand the "drink responsibly" ads that reinforce the stupid stereotype that says having requires drinking. Screw that. And colleges go along with this junk, co-sponsering ads during the NCAA - that's what gets me. It's like a gun company with a "kids, it's fun to shoot at people, but do it safely" campaign. But that argument of mine is lazily mixing too volatile subjects to no good effect, sorry.
You've hit on 9/10ths of it. Very true, the choice of composition is the biggest factor in telling what goes on. But the bigger picture is the "what is news" question and who decides that. You can't even trust the stories, because by their very selection, they have a slant.
We were the second-largest paper at the school, and one reason it was started was because the main paper sucked!. They were a tool of the administration and didn't ask the tough questions. We reported abuse of power by the SGA president, and he was removed. I found that asking tough questions was harder during finals time (my only regret).
Also, in a non-journalistic circumstance, you usually aren't concerned with truth; only your point (if you were concerned with truth, then that would be journalism).
In one picture, the soldier is waving his hand and the guy with the baby is ignoring him; in the touched up one, the baby-carrier is looking at the soldier. That's a significant difference - what is this soldier doing, and is he getting any respect? In the first picture, it looks like his hand is up just to counter-balance himself as he's walking. In the composite, it looks like he's waving at people and they are dutifully following his orders.
I was the main non-sports fotographer for a newspaper in college & talked with my editor about this. Sure, you can digitally take out something as simple as a fence that's blocking a view, but then that implies that there is no fence to block the view (and thus no security/privacy barrier). And that's not the truth.
So, I agree with the editors here. No manipulation should be tolerated at all. The covers of magazines are different, though (and legally recogonized as different, too) - they serve as an attraction to buy the magazine, and not news reporting.
Seriously, what part of gasdynamic LWS providing LFLAN capability with a Polonium-210 thermal source pumping an STC-catalitic-converter-stabalized CONHe lasing cavity through a supersonic aerospike expansion region following a constricting annulus do you not understand?;)
Actually, 7.2 (enigma) detected my dual-athlon just fine. I guess it broke in 8? Or maybe it was a pesky bios compatibility that you (by flashing a new one) or they (redhat) fixed?
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hopefully it's the "password protection". If they implemented it correctly, it wouldn't be static or easily derived from an algorithm; otherwise eavesdropping on the kill message traffic would allow an attacker to kill all the tags in a store. A crypto engine in the tags themselves would work (the best solution), or terminals would need to be connected to a kill-password-database. Or, the password scheme may just suck. I'll be on the lookout for the implementation details...
I think you're essentially right -- it's not a license terms change per se -- but it effectively changes the program from unlimited-clients to just one client. While enforced as the lack of a software feature, it totally changes the pricing model. The EULA connection comes in because it is the only place where you could learn about this feature-downgrade, and the fact that you could only read the EULA once the software was purchased. I don't think it's the "legally-binding" part of the EULA that's of concern; it seems like the long text of the EULA was just a convenient place to hide this notice during the install process.
That's not much more than Cisco's 7960 corded IP phone @ $500. It's a nice phone.
Can you get back to the previous version & be out just the $99, or is the upgrade process non-reversible? As software becomes more network-centric (where not all of it resides on your PC alone, but some key is on the mfg's server), this may become harder for a user to do.
Nice catch, but you also missed the old-school method of detecting a fake: You would think it would take time to mate the two planes and then have the photographer take the "after" picture. But no time elapsed: none of the shadows moved, and also none of the planes at this busy airport did, either.
Also, the camera didn't move: I'm sure they took pictures from many angles - what are the chances that the last unmated picture and the first mated picture were the best ones?
What next? They'll claim Linux is infringing on their phone number?
Product and Sales Inquiries
1-888-GO-LINUX
1-888-465-4689
I guess 1-888-BUY-*NIX didn't work as a phone number.
Ok, I found the link: extremetech reports this and my precious ee times was just plain wrong. Thanks. The datasheet said that 80W was the target power, which I assumed was for the processor but it's actually the target for the power supply. That's a lot of head room they spec'ed out. Since they are going after the server market, I guess we won't get any accurate numbers in spec sheets until they try to tackle the mobile market.
Here's a good (but dated) article explaining this feature. The short answer: they used encryption plus security-through-obscurity (no internal documentation!). This would be cool to hack for good, too -- imagine if you ran one major application that could be sped up with one additional specialized instruction!
This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but it passed unanimously in both the house and senate. Special interests bought both sides; no one party has a lock on serving the people.
Ah, I'll just have to wait for my legislators to be replaced.
From the first page of AMD's technical datasheet released today:
Target CPU core power: 80.6W
Target maximum thermal power: 84.7W
I wish it was only 40 watts! Where did you find this number - was it an actual measurement? If so, was it at 100% cpu load, idle, or midway?
I thought this was a little low (esp. compared to my athlons), and didn't actually look it up until I ran across this EETimes article that claims 89 Watts for the AMD64 240.
And my experience is that they typically don't see the products until a few weeks after they've been announced. Jobs: you got me all excited about the 17" notebook; I should be able to drive to your store the next day and see the floor model. After 3 weeks and people tend to lose enthusiasm. How hard can it be to send 20 fed-ex packages with the new floor models at the exact moment of your announcement?
Yeah, I know they probably aren't made yet and you want to get the announcement to coincide with some major event, but its far more fun to go touch the stuff right away.
Google is exploding that strategy by taking advantage of the basic strength of the Internet: the ability to go instantly from one place to any other at no cost beyond the basic connection.
Well, at no cost besides yer personal info, like your income +/-5K, age, gender, zip code, job title, and an offer to get spam from yesmail. Imagine if every new site you browsed to ask for this -- yikes!
Admining googles' server machines is waaay different than admining user machines. There are a lot of things that make this simpler:
- less variety of hardware. No Geforce 8 to download drivers for, no 1394.
- Lots of machines. Actually, they could have one person specialize on each exact type of machine they use (not like they'd be substatially different though)
- All machines run the same software. No registry hacking, just copy a master image onto the drive. No funky firewalls needed, no custom networking config.
- No data recovery. No accidently deleted files, no missing icons; even trashed drives can be put into the dumpster.
- No time penalties. Got 10 machines to fix? No "bob in marketing is sitting on his hands until you fix this", a broken machine could sit a month with no ill effects.
So, a rough estimate: Assume a MTBF of 6 months (kind of low, but this has to include scheduled upgrades), and a mean fix time of 1 hour (find the server, unrack, swap parts, reclone [done in parallel], bolt back together, reinstall, and test), a single admin could handle 1000 machines. And remember, they probably have all sorts of methods to optimize problem detection, isolation, and fix time. (or, like the cringely article, they may not really fix machines)
I had the nelsonic pacman watch with the joystick. It came with 4 different colored joysticks, mainly because they were easy to break. This used 2 LCDs on top of each other - one for the time, and one for the game. The gameplay was good - much better than the timex version that had a smaller screen. Plus, the nelsonic version had 2 game play modes- fixed walls, and randomly moving walls. But, only the timex had the real pacman music theme that was so catchy at the time.
The Polara Refrigerated Range is the same, but is a convection oven rather than a microwave. It's got a real compressor, and is available in stores now!
Sorry, that's all wrong, too. A=41, B=42, etc.
The 60's and 70's are all lowercase.
Did you know that the toilet paper printer runs a low paperwidth/high pulp version of CUPS called CUP?
(go ahead, spell it out...)
Make sure you've got plenty of airflow to the back - no fun hooking it up, only to find that all that pressured air behind it makes it rocket out of your nook!
No, seriously, make sure that it doesn't overheat - either a vent back there, a vent above, or airflow in/out of the front/side.
follow the money. Most alcohol consumed by minors is paid for legitimately. If businesses had to pay $2000 for drunk-in-public, dwi, or under-age-consumption arrest, you'd find beer companys a little more concerned. And cops, too.
I can't stand the "drink responsibly" ads that reinforce the stupid stereotype that says having requires drinking. Screw that. And colleges go along with this junk, co-sponsering ads during the NCAA - that's what gets me. It's like a gun company with a "kids, it's fun to shoot at people, but do it safely" campaign. But that argument of mine is lazily mixing too volatile subjects to no good effect, sorry.
You've hit on 9/10ths of it. Very true, the choice of composition is the biggest factor in telling what goes on. But the bigger picture is the "what is news" question and who decides that. You can't even trust the stories, because by their very selection, they have a slant.
We were the second-largest paper at the school, and one reason it was started was because the main paper sucked!. They were a tool of the administration and didn't ask the tough questions. We reported abuse of power by the SGA president, and he was removed. I found that asking tough questions was harder during finals time (my only regret).
Also, in a non-journalistic circumstance, you usually aren't concerned with truth; only your point (if you were concerned with truth, then that would be journalism).
In one picture, the soldier is waving his hand and the guy with the baby is ignoring him; in the touched up one, the baby-carrier is looking at the soldier. That's a significant difference - what is this soldier doing, and is he getting any respect? In the first picture, it looks like his hand is up just to counter-balance himself as he's walking. In the composite, it looks like he's waving at people and they are dutifully following his orders.
I was the main non-sports fotographer for a newspaper in college & talked with my editor about this. Sure, you can digitally take out something as simple as a fence that's blocking a view, but then that implies that there is no fence to block the view (and thus no security/privacy barrier). And that's not the truth.
So, I agree with the editors here. No manipulation should be tolerated at all. The covers of magazines are different, though (and legally recogonized as different, too) - they serve as an attraction to buy the magazine, and not news reporting.
Seriously, what part of gasdynamic LWS providing LFLAN capability with a Polonium-210 thermal source pumping an STC-catalitic-converter-stabalized CONHe lasing cavity through a supersonic aerospike expansion region following a constricting annulus do you not understand? ;)
Actually, 7.2 (enigma) detected my dual-athlon just fine. I guess it broke in 8? Or maybe it was a pesky bios compatibility that you (by flashing a new one) or they (redhat) fixed?
CmdrTaco posts the same story 2 1/2 hours apart... is that how long his memory is, or is someone else helping out?