Google's rationalization that the system is already insecure if someone else has physical access to it is absurd. That's like saying it's ok for a bank to leave everyone's money on the counter overnight because if someone breaks in then that same person can easily break into the vault, which is obviously not the case. Computer systems should have multiple levels of protection as well.
Past favorites include cost of living, housing prices, traffic, taxes, tech bust, tech boom, blah blah blah. Silicon Valley isn't going anywhere and neither are the vast majority of startups.
For throughput maybe but not IOPs. SATA adds a tremendous amount of overhead to I/Os. For spinning disks it didn't matter since the overhead represented a fraction of the rotational and seek latencies. For flash media however the SATA overhead is huge and inhibits transactional performance. As fast as SSDs are for IOPs they will see a quantum jump in IOPs with direct-attached interfaces like PCIe.
All pages go through their browser for reformatting to your device's screen dimensions and compression. There's also an option to disable loading of images, which I use most of the time. The only downside is all your web activity is seen by their servers, so I only use the Opera for my unimportant stuff.
He has no interest in the company - he just wants a quick payday. Problem for him is nobody is really that interested in Dell, so his machinations aren't going to work this time. It's comical that he thinks the company is worth north of $20/share.
A company paying $75 or so for monthly smartphone service pays for itself many times over in keeping employees tethered to the business and available for around-the-clock email and messaging. I expect companies will continue paying for service even for BYOD shops. If forcing employees to purchase a phone discourages them from using a phone for work then it will be a huge loss for companies.
And the same is true when you buy a car over state lines, which I've done. You can opt to pay the sales tax in the state you purchased the car or in the state you use the car - either way, at the time of registration you either need to prove you've paid sales tax on the car in any state (receipt) or failing that pay sales tax in the state you want to register the car in.
Yeah, I meant to say sales by companies outside the state, but what I was thinking when I wrote it was "applying the tax laws of one state to citizens (ie, companies) of another", thus my conflated/backwards summary.
fnj writes "It's not an 'internet sales tax', guys. It is simply legilation which would ALLOW the states to collect state sales tax on purchases made via the web, just as they do on other purchases."
I see, it's not an internet sales tax but instead a way to allow states to collect sales tax on purchases made via the web. The distinction is clear to me now, thanks.:good grief
It's not that existing PCs are too good but that they haven't improved much in the past few years, in particular processing speed. The days of huge computing jumps with a new processor generation appear to be behind us, at least for x86.
The De Havilland was solid except it's flawed fatiguing around its square window design. The DC-10 was solid except for its flawed cargo door design. The 737 was solid except for its flawed rudder design that lead to in-flight hardovers. When each of these solid planes crashed into the solid earth it wasn't the earth that shattered into a million pieces.
Anybody who's followed the travails of the 787 knows that Boeing still hasn't root caused the issue. Aside from better separation of cells, nothing has been done to prevent future batteries from failing and melting. There is a backup battery, and a Ram Air Turbine for critical flight control, but considering how poorly engineered and conceived the battery system has turned out to be I don't trust the general engineering of the plane.
They sold billions worth of 9.7" tablets. Now they're selling billions worth of the 7.9" tablets, many times to owners of their 9.7" tablets. Getting people to double-dip into their wallets for what is essentially the same product looks more like genius to me than a mistake.
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Fighting for their country. Let them hook up with whomever they want.
Google's rationalization that the system is already insecure if someone else has physical access to it is absurd. That's like saying it's ok for a bank to leave everyone's money on the counter overnight because if someone breaks in then that same person can easily break into the vault, which is obviously not the case. Computer systems should have multiple levels of protection as well.
Article is dated 8/2 (Friday), yesterday would be the first tradable day on the information.
Arresting someone for what amounts to a civil offense seems like government power overreach to me, otherwise known as fascism.
I've seen the source and it's a work of art. Whoever they had working on NT 4 for the PnP and other additions really massacred the code.
Oh wait...
Past favorites include cost of living, housing prices, traffic, taxes, tech bust, tech boom, blah blah blah. Silicon Valley isn't going anywhere and neither are the vast majority of startups.
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Develop a bank virus that rounds-off the pennies of every transaction and dumps them into an account you set up.
For throughput maybe but not IOPs. SATA adds a tremendous amount of overhead to I/Os. For spinning disks it didn't matter since the overhead represented a fraction of the rotational and seek latencies. For flash media however the SATA overhead is huge and inhibits transactional performance. As fast as SSDs are for IOPs they will see a quantum jump in IOPs with direct-attached interfaces like PCIe.
Over Burger King's.
All pages go through their browser for reformatting to your device's screen dimensions and compression. There's also an option to disable loading of images, which I use most of the time. The only downside is all your web activity is seen by their servers, so I only use the Opera for my unimportant stuff.
I only use iTunes maybe 3 times a month, so it lives with my other crapware in a separate Virtual Machine.
He has no interest in the company - he just wants a quick payday. Problem for him is nobody is really that interested in Dell, so his machinations aren't going to work this time. It's comical that he thinks the company is worth north of $20/share.
A company paying $75 or so for monthly smartphone service pays for itself many times over in keeping employees tethered to the business and available for around-the-clock email and messaging. I expect companies will continue paying for service even for BYOD shops. If forcing employees to purchase a phone discourages them from using a phone for work then it will be a huge loss for companies.
It's not unusual for a software bug to require multiple steps to manifest, and many times those steps are arrived at through chance.
And the same is true when you buy a car over state lines, which I've done. You can opt to pay the sales tax in the state you purchased the car or in the state you use the car - either way, at the time of registration you either need to prove you've paid sales tax on the car in any state (receipt) or failing that pay sales tax in the state you want to register the car in.
Yeah, I meant to say sales by companies outside the state, but what I was thinking when I wrote it was "applying the tax laws of one state to citizens (ie, companies) of another", thus my conflated/backwards summary.
fnj writes "It's not an 'internet sales tax', guys. It is simply legilation which would ALLOW the states to collect state sales tax on purchases made via the web, just as they do on other purchases."
:good grief
I see, it's not an internet sales tax but instead a way to allow states to collect sales tax on purchases made via the web. The distinction is clear to me now, thanks.
It's not that existing PCs are too good but that they haven't improved much in the past few years, in particular processing speed. The days of huge computing jumps with a new processor generation appear to be behind us, at least for x86.
The De Havilland was solid except it's flawed fatiguing around its square window design. The DC-10 was solid except for its flawed cargo door design. The 737 was solid except for its flawed rudder design that lead to in-flight hardovers. When each of these solid planes crashed into the solid earth it wasn't the earth that shattered into a million pieces.
Anybody who's followed the travails of the 787 knows that Boeing still hasn't root caused the issue. Aside from better separation of cells, nothing has been done to prevent future batteries from failing and melting. There is a backup battery, and a Ram Air Turbine for critical flight control, but considering how poorly engineered and conceived the battery system has turned out to be I don't trust the general engineering of the plane.
And here's my IPv6 address: take:your:copyright:and:go:fuck:your:self
They sold billions worth of 9.7" tablets. Now they're selling billions worth of the 7.9" tablets, many times to owners of their 9.7" tablets. Getting people to double-dip into their wallets for what is essentially the same product looks more like genius to me than a mistake.
I get the idea behind advertising but don't ads lose their effectiveness when they're so pervasive?