A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting "pi," or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits.
Good, now she can counsel herself on having more exciting things to do than learning and reciting the digits of a number anyone of us can look up.
What's even harder to explain is how 1 person from 1 keyboard has the power to kill a company. Do they have to seize the moment that desperately that even a simple check cannot be done?
And without any copyright protection of digital content, they may be correct that new high quality content is likely to dry up... Actually, I find that high quality content and ideas are harder to "rip" and replicate. Maybe not the best example, but Slashdot's code and ideas are out in the open, yet there aren't many competing sites for the same audience. The problem, to some extent extent, thus perhaps lies with the quality of content.
With a free mobile-to-mobile feature, you don't have to be able to make free calls, but cheap calls would be cool too. You could interface directly to your computer for a whole range of other things too. My take is that the cool part is in the interface to the computer, with free calls being one of the multiple possibilities. Once this gets popular, there may be some limitations though.
I would imagine something without as many features to consume less power. I'd say it's not power-saving features of Linux, but rather a better battery and/or more power-efficient electronics as a whole.
Can't they get more storage performance out of their system by (more) aggressively compressing old information? That shouldn't matter too much to the indexing mechanism. Also, it might make sense to tag the importance of different documents so that its compressing/archiving treatment can depend on that.
The interesting thing is that in a man vs. machine fight, the tech folks can say "we won" as they assembled the machine. Is it a humiliation or triumph for mankind that it can build a machine that can defeat itself? I think it would rather be a failure for humans if mortals can defeat highly optimized machines.
"It's so forward-thinking and so bold, I would say in two years you will be able to evaluate if this was the right move strategically and financially,"...
It is indeed for forward-thinking, that many of us don't seem to get why these two companies should be merging. That is: it seems their fields hardly overlap at all, so I'm curious where the common strategy is.
Would there be a point in ordering that the N version is the only one allowed to be sold in Europe? Obviously, there won't be much interest in a stripped down version of the same product, especially if the old product is still available.
To which extent do they actually check that the person is in fact unemployed? Certainly, a person-to-person talk should take place before they hand over money just like that? Perhaps this is a bigger problem in their system as identity theft appears to be one of many ways to exploit that system.
I'm not so sure the term "exploit" is the appropriate one. It's more often associates with programs with malicious intent or gaining higher privileges on another person's system. Surely, making full use of the hardware you own is not "exploiting" it?
Are there any public screenshots available yet of what it's going to look like? I understand the basic principles of what they're going to do, but it's still a little hard to envision what the end result is going to look like.
I certainly welcome this development. Usability is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind with a lot of open source software. This is an area that proprietary software companies still have an edge on because they're also in a position to pay for the extra work going into interface design.
Basically there are several aspects a good interface should fulfill -- like preventing errors before they happen and the user has to deal with them or giving the user control and freedom over the application (and not vice versa), offering an efficient interface and so on.
I'm not sure how errors can be prevented, assuming that they're not within control of the application. Does he mean design errors? Can someone explain?
One thing I'd like to know is their position on spyware and why it has to be installed along with the actual program? How much money are they getting from it? It's quite annoying.. my father installed Kazaa lately and now he has their spyware on his system... which means that I get the fun job of removing it. Thanks, Niklas!
But it doesn't hurt anyone else much either as I'm on a 56k line. Oh, scary DOS comming from that.
What you're saying shows the root of the problem and why it's so hard to solve: you need some level of cooperation from people who do not have a direct interest in solving it simply because it doesn't affect them. Sure, your little 56k is quite harmless, but with 1000 zombies on little 56 lines, you can create quite a flood.
The other problem is with using up bandwidth allotments. Let's say the attacker is using 2KB/s for flooding. You won't notice that, but the other end wastes 5GB/month. Now if you have just 200 56k lines on pumping this on average, you'll be driving the target into unwanted bandwidth bills for sure. Now this analysis is making some assumptions, but you get the picture.
So is this news something to be pessimistic about or what? As I understand it, without vigilantes botnets would be even more "unstoppable" than they are now. It's cool that they're mitigating it, but it really comes down to getting some cooperation going on multiple levels... starting with the ISPs acting more against outgoing malicious traffic for a start.
Next thing you know, not only the OS and the programs that mitigate/stop the harm which patches protect needs patches, but also the program that does the patching.
On the plus side, the patch cycle is probably a lot shorter with the security products and automated patching is less of an issue than with the OS itself, which is much more complicated and requires a ton more testing.
More importantly, we need to run a web server on it. No linux installation is complete without apache and PHP on it. Now if another ipod has a browser on it, then my ipod can serve webpages to your ipod.
Nope. I've actually lived in Saudi Arabia as a kid in the early 80's due to my father's work there. We regularly bought cassette tapes at the time, including classical and contemporary. So... what you're saying is quite definitely not true and it hasn't been true for at least 20 years.
How much demand is there actually for these chips? Obviously it's not *that* high as there would be no point in discontinuing them otherwise. Corsair has built themselves a strong reputation for the niche market of overclockers and this will strengthen their position.
Well, keeping logs of just 1 active website is problematic enough... imagine doing that for 10000 websites. It's certain to bring extra costs and those costs will have to be paid by someone... and that's going to be the customer.
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A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting "pi," or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits.
Good, now she can counsel herself on having more exciting things to do than learning and reciting the digits of a number anyone of us can look up.
What's even harder to explain is how 1 person from 1 keyboard has the power to kill a company. Do they have to seize the moment that desperately that even a simple check cannot be done?
And without any copyright protection of digital content, they may be correct that new high quality content is likely to dry up...
Actually, I find that high quality content and ideas are harder to "rip" and replicate. Maybe not the best example, but Slashdot's code and ideas are out in the open, yet there aren't many competing sites for the same audience. The problem, to some extent extent, thus perhaps lies with the quality of content.
With a free mobile-to-mobile feature, you don't have to be able to make free calls, but cheap calls would be cool too. You could interface directly to your computer for a whole range of other things too. My take is that the cool part is in the interface to the computer, with free calls being one of the multiple possibilities. Once this gets popular, there may be some limitations though.
I wonder if this method is patented... ?
I would imagine something without as many features to consume less power. I'd say it's not power-saving features of Linux, but rather a better battery and/or more power-efficient electronics as a whole.
Can't they get more storage performance out of their system by (more) aggressively compressing old information? That shouldn't matter too much to the indexing mechanism. Also, it might make sense to tag the importance of different documents so that its compressing/archiving treatment can depend on that.
The interesting thing is that in a man vs. machine fight, the tech folks can say "we won" as they assembled the machine. Is it a humiliation or triumph for mankind that it can build a machine that can defeat itself? I think it would rather be a failure for humans if mortals can defeat highly optimized machines.
"It's so forward-thinking and so bold, I would say in two years you will be able to evaluate if this was the right move strategically and financially," ...
It is indeed for forward-thinking, that many of us don't seem to get why these two companies should be merging. That is: it seems their fields hardly overlap at all, so I'm curious where the common strategy is.
Would there be a point in ordering that the N version is the only one allowed to be sold in Europe? Obviously, there won't be much interest in a stripped down version of the same product, especially if the old product is still available.
To which extent do they actually check that the person is in fact unemployed? Certainly, a person-to-person talk should take place before they hand over money just like that? Perhaps this is a bigger problem in their system as identity theft appears to be one of many ways to exploit that system.
I'm not so sure the term "exploit" is the appropriate one. It's more often associates with programs with malicious intent or gaining higher privileges on another person's system. Surely, making full use of the hardware you own is not "exploiting" it?
Are there any public screenshots available yet of what it's going to look like? I understand the basic principles of what they're going to do, but it's still a little hard to envision what the end result is going to look like.
I certainly welcome this development. Usability is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind with a lot of open source software. This is an area that proprietary software companies still have an edge on because they're also in a position to pay for the extra work going into interface design.
Basically there are several aspects a good interface should fulfill -- like preventing errors before they happen and the user has to deal with them or giving the user control and freedom over the application (and not vice versa), offering an efficient interface and so on.
I'm not sure how errors can be prevented, assuming that they're not within control of the application. Does he mean design errors? Can someone explain?
Well, the thing is that I can trust many people I know with my life, but not with my computer.
One thing I'd like to know is their position on spyware and why it has to be installed along with the actual program? How much money are they getting from it? It's quite annoying.. my father installed Kazaa lately and now he has their spyware on his system... which means that I get the fun job of removing it. Thanks, Niklas!
But it doesn't hurt anyone else much either as I'm on a 56k line. Oh, scary DOS comming from that.
What you're saying shows the root of the problem and why it's so hard to solve: you need some level of cooperation from people who do not have a direct interest in solving it simply because it doesn't affect them. Sure, your little 56k is quite harmless, but with 1000 zombies on little 56 lines, you can create quite a flood.
The other problem is with using up bandwidth allotments. Let's say the attacker is using 2KB/s for flooding. You won't notice that, but the other end wastes 5GB/month. Now if you have just 200 56k lines on pumping this on average, you'll be driving the target into unwanted bandwidth bills for sure. Now this analysis is making some assumptions, but you get the picture.
So is this news something to be pessimistic about or what? As I understand it, without vigilantes botnets would be even more "unstoppable" than they are now. It's cool that they're mitigating it, but it really comes down to getting some cooperation going on multiple levels... starting with the ISPs acting more against outgoing malicious traffic for a start.
Next thing you know, not only the OS and the programs that mitigate/stop the harm which patches protect needs patches, but also the program that does the patching.
On the plus side, the patch cycle is probably a lot shorter with the security products and automated patching is less of an issue than with the OS itself, which is much more complicated and requires a ton more testing.
The article appears a little short on details for such a tour. I mean.. just two pages? They don't even mention which cities the headquarters are in.
I wonder if she got a special edition like a gold-plated one?
Yes, but I thought I would share some insight nonetheless.
More importantly, we need to run a web server on it. No linux installation is complete without apache and PHP on it. Now if another ipod has a browser on it, then my ipod can serve webpages to your ipod.
Nope. I've actually lived in Saudi Arabia as a kid in the early 80's due to my father's work there. We regularly bought cassette tapes at the time, including classical and contemporary. So... what you're saying is quite definitely not true and it hasn't been true for at least 20 years.
How much demand is there actually for these chips? Obviously it's not *that* high as there would be no point in discontinuing them otherwise. Corsair has built themselves a strong reputation for the niche market of overclockers and this will strengthen their position.
Well, keeping logs of just 1 active website is problematic enough... imagine doing that for 10000 websites. It's certain to bring extra costs and those costs will have to be paid by someone... and that's going to be the customer.