The power drawn by a PSU isn't the maximum rated power *all the time*. Add together the usage of the components and you probably won't go over 100 watts at full load. If the 300W power supply drew 300W and only supplied 100W to the computer, it would have to dissipate 200W itself, which would get pretty hot!
I think the cruise missile approach is pretty scary. It's seems pretty hard to defend against. A model airplane (as with a suicide bomb truck) you can see coming and shoot down.
But a compact metal cylinder travelling at 600kph carrying a 10kg warhead plus a load of unburnt jet fuel? Launched from 10 miles away and programmed to follow a deceptive path?
What do you do? Install CIWS on every vaguely military western compound in the world?
The answer to project splits is simple - make all OS developers watch the Life of Brian. It's impossible to take intra-group political fights seriously after that.
"Judean People's Front? F*** off, we're the People's Front of Judea." "Whatever happened to the Judean People's Front, anyway?" "He's over there" "Splitter!"
Yes, a lot of coding work is monkey-level. Writing spreadsheets to draw nice reports using VBA/Excel is not hard. Basic level coding is a simple skill that can be easily out-sourced anywhere.
Extending that to all programming is a typical non-expert way of thinking. "I've hacked some VBA/Perl, so writing a large application that interfaces with the work of ten other programmers must be easy too". I've seen the results of that, and it isn't pretty.
An added bonus : it might save people like me (and I imagine many Slashdotters), whose family and friends have figured out know about "them computer thingies", from all those "my modem doesn't work" conversations.
At least with pen-and-paper voting, you don't have to place blind faith in the people who make the pens that your vote will count. You fill in the ballot form, it goes into a locked, metal box with a seal you have to break in order to get at the votes. Tampering with the vote (unless you're a Bush) requires some time alone with the box and a crowbar.
The counts are always done in public, with eagle-eyed candidates and press around (for important votes, anyway). It's nowhere near foolproof, but cheating on a significant scale would be more obvious than using a closed-source piece of software that, for example, 'accidentally' loses every 50th vote for a candidate.
What are they doing to bias it then? They have so many benchmarks covering every possible usage pattern. Are they just making the benchmark numbers up? Or perhaps their pricing information is false? Give some evidence of the bias and I'll believe you. In the meantime, go find the other sites that reach the same conclusions. For example Tom's Hardware
Yes, MMV. I have a K6-2-266 that's been running at 300Mhz since 1997, getting heavy use both as a desktop and as a server in that time. As a server its only downtime was for hardware upgrades and kernel changes every 4 months or so. Processor reliabilty just isn't an issue, either for Intel or AMD. Sure, you can burn an AthlonXP if you don't fit the heatsink properly. But that really isn't an issue for normal usage.
If it's an executable and the user runs it, then it can do anything the user can do. If I emailed you "hot_nekkid_chicks.sh", you saved it using mutt, ran it without thinking and it did rm -rf ~/ , you wouldn't blame Mutt.
The fact that MS software makes it so easy to run an attachment and to hide its executable nature is the problem.
Come on, TrollTech have to pay their developers somehow. Qt is a great widget set - simple to learn and use, the documentation is among the best I've seen. They help out the KDE people, they provide the Free software community with Qt for free on loads of platforms - most of the *nixs and Mac.
Widget sets are often expensive. ILOG Views, for example, costs a lot more than $1550, and back when I used it was buggy as hell.
>Exactly: most countries screw the taxpayer, who probably just wants better roads to drive their car on
And where are you going to put these better roads? Through all those taxpayers house? More roads -> more traffic -> more congestion -> more roads ->....
Doh, I've seen so many people referring to using SELinux I've always just assumed it was the whole distro. I'm sure someone can find a distro to add to the list!
They do have all sorts of measures in place to fight this - they watch IP addresses, access patterns etc. A friend of mine got his University department's IP range banned from Google by writing a script to click repeatedly on ad-words. It didn't take them long to spot it.
>There's absolutely no reason for there to be more than two or three distributions
Let's try and find reasons for more than 3, shall we. Hmmm:
-Debian: solid, stable, completely free, at the cost of being outdated sometimes -Mandrake:Simple distro, ideal for newbies. Not good for linux diehards who like to fiddle with everything -Gentoo: bleeding edge, compilation optimisations, easy to reconfigure the way you want it if you know what you're doing. Not so many guarantees on the stability. -Redhat:commercial, certified, expensive, well-supported, reasonably up to date. -SuSE:somewhat similar approach to Redhat. Keeps Redhat honest through this crazy thing called competition. -SELinux - security above all else
The difference is priorities. Trying to combine their properties (free+certified? Ultra-Secure and custom compilations?) would be hard.
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>By contrast a world cup or European soccer game will run for a full 45 minute half with out any interruptions.
The Rugby World Cup on ITV had adverts between the end of the anthems and kick off for many matches. I just hope that it's not the start of a slippery slope. Personally, I found it really spoiled the build up to the match.
The whole advertising on TV economy seems to be based on the idea that more adverts==more consumer impact. Don't they realise that this is a completely flawed idea? Hmm, shall I buy this product from the company that annoys me by interrupting my TV viewing every ten minutes to scream "Buy this!" at me? Or this other brand I read a review of online?
Look at the number of ad-blockers for those annoying flash ads on the web. Look at the success of Penny-arcade's static, simple, targeted adverts.
There are plenty of games on the PC where one or two shots kill. Day of Defeat and Operation Flashpoint, to name two. To me, the accuracy of the mouse is about right - up close, it's pretty hard to miss a man-sized target if you're standing still.
I still remember the awfulness of goldeneye on the N64. Controlling your arms with a joystick just seems wrong to me.
The Dragonball is very, very slow. The 16Mhz version gets around 4 million instructions/second or so. They (IIRC) don't have any cache, and memory latency is pretty poor. Emulating a whole system like the C64, which I think had a bunch of custom chips for game-related functions (sprites etc), requires much more processor power than you'd think.
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The power drawn by a PSU isn't the maximum rated power *all the time*. Add together the usage of the components and you probably won't go over 100 watts at full load. If the 300W power supply drew 300W and only supplied 100W to the computer, it would have to dissipate 200W itself, which would get pretty hot!
No it doesn't. The exploit page linked to in the article displays the full URL with Mozilla 1.5 on my Linux system:
r it y/ex01/vun2.htm
http://www.microsoft.com@zapthedingbat.com/secu
I think the cruise missile approach is pretty scary. It's seems pretty hard to defend against. A model airplane (as with a suicide bomb truck) you can see coming and shoot down. But a compact metal cylinder travelling at 600kph carrying a 10kg warhead plus a load of unburnt jet fuel? Launched from 10 miles away and programmed to follow a deceptive path?
What do you do? Install CIWS on every vaguely military western compound in the world?
Hmm, did that aircraft do 380mph at low altitude and carry a 10kg warhead? If not, it's not really in the same league.
The answer to project splits is simple - make all OS developers watch the Life of Brian. It's impossible to take intra-group political fights seriously after that.
"Judean People's Front? F*** off, we're the People's Front of Judea."
"Whatever happened to the Judean People's Front, anyway?"
"He's over there"
"Splitter!"
Yes, a lot of coding work is monkey-level. Writing spreadsheets to draw nice reports using VBA/Excel is not hard. Basic level coding is a simple skill that can be easily out-sourced anywhere.
Extending that to all programming is a typical non-expert way of thinking. "I've hacked some VBA/Perl, so writing a large application that interfaces with the work of ten other programmers must be easy too". I've seen the results of that, and it isn't pretty.
An added bonus : it might save people like me (and I imagine many Slashdotters), whose family and friends have figured out know about "them computer thingies", from all those "my modem doesn't work" conversations.
At least with pen-and-paper voting, you don't have to place blind faith in the people who make the pens that your vote will count. You fill in the ballot form, it goes into a locked, metal box with a seal you have to break in order to get at the votes. Tampering with the vote (unless you're a Bush) requires some time alone with the box and a crowbar.
The counts are always done in public, with eagle-eyed candidates and press around (for important votes, anyway). It's nowhere near foolproof, but cheating on a significant scale would be more obvious than using a closed-source piece of software that, for example, 'accidentally' loses every 50th vote for a candidate.
What are they doing to bias it then? They have so many benchmarks covering every possible usage pattern. Are they just making the benchmark numbers up? Or perhaps their pricing information is false? Give some evidence of the bias and I'll believe you. In the meantime, go find the other sites that reach the same conclusions. For example Tom's Hardware
Yes, MMV. I have a K6-2-266 that's been running at 300Mhz since 1997, getting heavy use both as a desktop and as a server in that time. As a server its only downtime was for hardware upgrades and kernel changes every 4 months or so.
Processor reliabilty just isn't an issue, either for Intel or AMD. Sure, you can burn an AthlonXP if you don't fit the heatsink properly. But that really isn't an issue for normal usage.
That's what I said - the ease of execution is the problem, not the fact that code can crawl your address book as the grandparent post states.
If it's an executable and the user runs it, then it can do anything the user can do. If I emailed you "hot_nekkid_chicks.sh", you saved it using mutt, ran it without thinking and it did rm -rf ~/ , you wouldn't blame Mutt.
The fact that MS software makes it so easy to run an attachment and to hide its executable nature is the problem.
Come on, TrollTech have to pay their developers somehow. Qt is a great widget set - simple to learn and use, the documentation is among the best I've seen. They help out the KDE people, they provide the Free software community with Qt for free on loads of platforms - most of the *nixs and Mac.
Widget sets are often expensive. ILOG Views, for example, costs a lot more than $1550, and back when I used it was buggy as hell.
>Exactly: most countries screw the taxpayer, who probably just wants better roads to drive their car on
And where are you going to put these better roads? Through all those taxpayers house? More roads -> more traffic -> more congestion -> more roads ->....
It's an endless cycle.
>Unless you're in London, of course, where the tube is pretty good...
Are you living in some kind of parallel London I don't have access to? I'd call the tube many things, but good wouldn't be one of them.
>and while the british system closely resembles western europas tracks its not safe for high speeds...
or if it's hot, cold, snowing, raining, autumn, or if Jarvis has been within a mile of it.
Yes, of course Linux uses FAT32. And that text mode screen you get when you press Ctrl-Alt-F1 is COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 6.22.
Doh, I've seen so many people referring to using SELinux I've always just assumed it was the whole distro. I'm sure someone can find a distro to add to the list!
They do have all sorts of measures in place to fight this - they watch IP addresses, access patterns etc. A friend of mine got his University department's IP range banned from Google by writing a script to click repeatedly on ad-words. It didn't take them long to spot it.
>There's absolutely no reason for there to be more than two or three distributions
Let's try and find reasons for more than 3, shall we. Hmmm:
-Debian: solid, stable, completely free, at the cost of being outdated sometimes
-Mandrake:Simple distro, ideal for newbies. Not good for linux diehards who like to fiddle with everything
-Gentoo: bleeding edge, compilation optimisations, easy to reconfigure the way you want it if you know what you're doing. Not so many guarantees on the stability.
-Redhat:commercial, certified, expensive, well-supported, reasonably up to date.
-SuSE:somewhat similar approach to Redhat. Keeps Redhat honest through this crazy thing called competition.
-SELinux - security above all else
The difference is priorities. Trying to combine their properties (free+certified? Ultra-Secure and custom compilations?) would be hard.
What does your deployment of Linux have to do with Unix?
>By contrast a world cup or European soccer game will run for a full 45 minute half with out any interruptions.
The Rugby World Cup on ITV had adverts between the end of the anthems and kick off for many matches. I just hope that it's not the start of a slippery slope. Personally, I found it really spoiled the build up to the match.
The whole advertising on TV economy seems to be based on the idea that more adverts==more consumer impact. Don't they realise that this is a completely flawed idea? Hmm, shall I buy this product from the company that annoys me by interrupting my TV viewing every ten minutes to scream "Buy this!" at me? Or this other brand I read a review of online?
Look at the number of ad-blockers for those annoying flash ads on the web. Look at the success of Penny-arcade's static, simple, targeted adverts.
There are plenty of games on the PC where one or two shots kill. Day of Defeat and Operation Flashpoint, to name two. To me, the accuracy of the mouse is about right - up close, it's pretty hard to miss a man-sized target if you're standing still.
I still remember the awfulness of goldeneye on the N64. Controlling your arms with a joystick just seems wrong to me.
The Dragonball is very, very slow. The 16Mhz version gets around 4 million instructions/second or so. They (IIRC) don't have any cache, and memory latency is pretty poor. Emulating a whole system like the C64, which I think had a bunch of custom chips for game-related functions (sprites etc), requires much more processor power than you'd think.