If you have the entire contents in memory you can be assured of not skipping if there becomes contention for the disk. iTunes on the mac is famous for not skipping no matter the system load, guess why?
That doesn't explain why you would want the full raw data in RAM instead of the compressed data.
Sure, pre-decoding might prevent skipping in case of heavy CPU usage but for long DJ mixes or audiobooks the RAM requirements would be prohibitive.
How about having no pins on either motherboard nor CPU but instead have a "CPU-sized plastic square with pins through it" right between them? If you bend a pin you'll just have to replace the between-thingie.
... my parents took me (i'm from Austria) on a trip to the US (New York for a few days, then to Tampa, Florida, for a few more days) a few years ago (I was ~18 at the time).
We rented a car, which obviously was automatic. My father is an excellent driver, but he never drove an automatic before. He did pretty well, until he hit the "clutch" on the middle lane of the highway.
Security has to include the user, because he is part of the system and can compromise it just like say a buffer overflow could. That's why theres password policies and other such things.
If a system is hard to use correctly it quite possibly is also hard to use securely.
Examples:
Assume a browser that supports JavaScript. Since its implementation is known to be faulty (it was written by humans, so that assumption seems rational), JavaScript can be turned on and off by the user.
Scenario 1: The Button to switch JavaScript on and off is easily recognizable, warns the user that JS should only be on for websites that he trusts and websites clearly state why they need JS anyway. The user now can make an informed decision which websites he wants to enable JS for.
Scenario 2: JS is turned on and off by a hard to find menu item on the third tab of a very complex dialog. That menu item may also be misleadingly labelled. The user probably doesn't even know its there, but if he tried it out he would see that some websites he needs to use stop working correctly. Hence, he's obviously better off leaving it on.
It should be clear that you can't have security without usability.
Of course it is one of the greatest aspects of my life that i greet my colleagues with "morgen!" instead of "heil !" or "dobroe utro!" and i know that i owe that - or at least a very big part of that - to the american people.
I still think that Iraq is worse off now than it was under Saddam Hussein, and will be for at least 5-10 years, if not longer.
Stabilizing the country will mean planes with soldiers going US-%gt;Iraq and planes with caskets coming back for a long time, which will be pretty hard to justify politically. I don't even want to think about what will happen when that effort can't be kept up for long enough.
I think invading Iraq was a very bad choice, leading to more hatred against the US and to more recruits for terrorists. Instead of making the world a safer place, it will be less safe for years to come. That alone should have been reason enough to vote Bush out.
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That doesn't explain why you would want the full raw data in RAM instead of the compressed data.
Sure, pre-decoding might prevent skipping in case of heavy CPU usage but for long DJ mixes or audiobooks the RAM requirements would be prohibitive.
There's a firefox extension for that: mnmnenenehheyhhyhy
That statement is illegal under the DMCA. Prepare to be sued. And no, there aren't.
Yours, the RIAA.
Go outside then! And get a shower, too.
Funny... when i read "in favor of Sony" up there i immediately interpreted it as "against VTRs".
The public perception of Sony (well, at least my perception of Sony) seems to have changed a bit over the last years.
How about having no pins on either motherboard nor CPU but instead have a "CPU-sized plastic square with pins through it" right between them? If you bend a pin you'll just have to replace the between-thingie.
Oh god. I'm gonna make MILLIONS.
WTF is wrong with topless girls? Inhowfar are they "anti-family"?
Host: Worst. Cliche. Ever. is this country.
Ken: Soviet Russia is what?
I will not take you seriously.
Yes, but in (communist) North Korea, YOU read faster than old people up the bomb!!
... my parents took me (i'm from Austria) on a trip to the US (New York for a few days, then to Tampa, Florida, for a few more days) a few years ago (I was ~18 at the time).
We rented a car, which obviously was automatic. My father is an excellent driver, but he never drove an automatic before. He did pretty well, until he hit the "clutch" on the middle lane of the highway.
Pretty scary, but gladly no one got hurt.
Security has to include the user, because he is part of the system and can compromise it just like say a buffer overflow could. That's why theres password policies and other such things.
If a system is hard to use correctly it quite possibly is also hard to use securely.
Examples:
Assume a browser that supports JavaScript. Since its implementation is known to be faulty (it was written by humans, so that assumption seems rational), JavaScript can be turned on and off by the user.
Scenario 1: The Button to switch JavaScript on and off is easily recognizable, warns the user that JS should only be on for websites that he trusts and websites clearly state why they need JS anyway. The user now can make an informed decision which websites he wants to enable JS for.
Scenario 2: JS is turned on and off by a hard to find menu item on the third tab of a very complex dialog. That menu item may also be misleadingly labelled. The user probably doesn't even know its there, but if he tried it out he would see that some websites he needs to use stop working correctly. Hence, he's obviously better off leaving it on.
It should be clear that you can't have security without usability.
Why didn't you just tell her it was a "Humblecoder Gruntmaster 3000"?
You USians and your funny units... how much is that in Libraries-of-Congress?
As stated in the CIA world factbook:
United States - 6% (2003)
United Kingdom - 5% (2003 est.)
United Arab Emirates - 2.4% (2001)
Ukraine - 3.7% officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers (2003)
Thailand - 2.2% (2003 est.)
Taiwan - 5% (2003 est.)
Switzerland - 3.7% (2003 est.)
Sweden - 4.9% (2003 est.)
Singapore - 4.8% (2003 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis - 4.5% (1997)
Qatar - 2.7% (2001)
Palau - 2.3% (2000 est.)
Norway - 4.7% (2003 est.)
Nigeria - 2.7% (2003 est.)
New Zealand - 4.7% (2003 est.)
Netherlands - 5.3% (2003 est.)
Mongolia - 4.6% (2001)
Monaco - 3.1% (1998)
Mexico - 3.3% plus underemployment of perhaps 25% (2003)
Man, Isle of - 0.7% (March 2003)
Malaysia - 3.6% (2003 est.)
Madagascar - 5.9% (1998)
Luxembourg - 3.6% (2003 est.)
Liechtenstein - 1.3% (September 2002)
Laos - 5.7% (1997 est.)
Korea, South - 3.4% (2003 est.)
Kuwait - 2.1% (2003 est.)
Kiribati - 2%; underemployment 70% (1992 est.)
Jersey - 0.7% (1998 est.)
Japan - 5.3% (2003)
Ireland - 4.7% (2003 est.)
Hungary - 5.9% (2003 est.)
Iceland - 3.4% (2003 est.)
Guernsey - 0.5% (1999 est.)
Gibraltar - 2% (2001 est.)
Faroe Islands - 1% (October 2000)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) - full employment; labor shortage (2001)
Cyprus - Greek Cypriot area: 3.4%; Turkish Cypriot area: 5.6% (2003 est.)
Cuba - 2.6% (2003 est.)
Cayman Islands - 4.1% (1997)
Cambodia - 2.5% (2000 est.)
Burma - 4.2% (2003)
British Virgin Islands - 3% (1995)
Bermuda - 5% (2002 est.)
Belarus - 2.1% officially registered unemployed (December 2000); large number of underemployed workers (2003 est.)
Austria - 4.4% (2003 est.)
Azerbaijan - 1.1% (official rate is 1.2%) (2003 est.)
Aruba - 0.6% (2003 est.)
Andorra - 0% (1996 est.)
Of course it is one of the greatest aspects of my life that i greet my colleagues with "morgen!" instead of "heil !" or "dobroe utro!" and i know that i owe that - or at least a very big part of that - to the american people.
I still think that Iraq is worse off now than it was under Saddam Hussein, and will be for at least 5-10 years, if not longer.
Stabilizing the country will mean planes with soldiers going US-%gt;Iraq and planes with caskets coming back for a long time, which will be pretty hard to justify politically. I don't even want to think about what will happen when that effort can't be kept up for long enough.
I think invading Iraq was a very bad choice, leading to more hatred against the US and to more recruits for terrorists. Instead of making the world a safer place, it will be less safe for years to come. That alone should have been reason enough to vote Bush out.
I am speaking German you insensitive clod!
or he combined it with that old "1+1=3 for large values of 1" joke.
Except your arithmetics are unary (or at least "unique"), not binary.
Flamebait? Flamebait? I even put a ";)" right there!
Ungrateful fuckers. They owe all their business to Microsoft anyways!
you, sir, have been sigged. thank you very much.
not sure (way too early in the morning), but isn't the APL more BSD-like and not so much like the GPL?
I would guess they have bigger problems than a little joke now.