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I see these new machines and are underwhelmed with their performance. They compare a brand new top of the line laptop to a year old design and the new one if mostly faster by a bit. I thought the idea of the dual core was to be much faster. Lets see a benchmark of a new PPC chip compared to these things and see how the number fall out? How about something like the new multi-core/multi-thread chip from sun as well? I just see the intel switch as being stuck with power hungry hardware that just isn't as impressive as if they put the more power hungry G4's in a laptop.
So AOL wants to sell their addresses to spamers who will then pay them to send AOL customers special offers that bypass the spam filters. Then AOL gives the message a special symbol to show its legit. This means that every message with the extra symbol is spam so it can be ignored.
No, mores law claims the transistor density (or now the data density) doubles ever 18 mo. It turns out that increases the problems you can solve in a non linear way. A great example of this is the hardware multiplier. Once transistor density got tot he point where you could put a hardware multiplier on the chip, you could do a 16 bit multiply about 60 times faster than using the add/shift technique so you do do far more complex work. There are also massive gains in DNA sequencing once you could build a machine that could hold an entire DNA strand in memory so it didn't have to be doing comparisons off disk which resulted in a several million time speedup.
Far more than a billion songs have been listened to on AM radio and people went out and bought them but that doesn't prove AM radio is reasonable. 128 ACC is fine for background entertainment but if a quiet room and I only want to focus on the music, its just nasty.
Big deal. If I could get a modern G5 in the same box it would more than 4x faster than 3 year old G4 stuff as well and based on rumors, run with less power so the battery would last longer. One benchmark I saw the Intel Imac did 55 frames per second while an AMD at the same speed running a hacked OSX did 75 and the quad core G5 only did 155.
I would love to see that Sparc CPU in a mac but I don't think its going to happen since King Steve wants to play golf with the CEO of a company that used to be on top of the x86 architecture.
Why is Steve so good when he has to appease the board but delivers such junk after he's been crowned King of Apple?
I have a 4 channel DVCR with ethernet that doesn't use windows on the main system but has a windows app that displays recorded images. Mine records a frame every 1/5 sec onto a 40gig hd and it seems to work ok using cheap cameras. I've looked at the data and I don't think it would take much to write a program for Linux or OS-X. The unit I have is identical to the top 4 channel network unit here.
No OS can defend against the end user deliberately running malicious code
Its trivial to check the 1st few blocks of a program against a table and not let the user run it even if they keep clicking on the shiny icon. This feature should have been built into every version of windows since about 3.1 since DOS 5 even did this to keep from running things.
The x86 stack is much easier to abuse than the PPC or Sparc stack. This is why many of the recent exploits for Solaris are x86 only. I expect the same will be true for the x86 OS-X as well.
They can fix the second part too. Microware OS-9 (Not related to Mac OS9 in any way) for the 6809/68000 would CRC check each executable and there were patches so that you could keep a program with a specific CRC from running. There should be a table in the OS of hashes of things not to run ever with a second table of overrides for the local admin/user to maintain independently than the one that could get updated every time software update gets run.
There is no excuse for malware other than incompetence on the part of the OS vendor. Even blaming the lusers only goes so far. I also think people who get hit with malware DDOS should start asking the OS vendors for compensation based on existing product liability laws, innocent third party laws and product recall laws.
Samsung makes phones. They will leapfrog it by building a real phone into it if they are smart. With a bit of work, I think you could pull the 2 gig flash card out of a nano and replace it with a phone chipset assuming you can get access to audio in. Add in some firmware to run it all and then all you would need is a pair of external mic for noise cancelation and you've got a phone, in an ipod and people will stop carrying around another device.
If Apple owns Disney and Sony owns MGM then the MPAA's days could be numbered since the two of them don't agree with how the MPAA is trying to control new media. It might be a great way to pull a large number of high dollar useless fat cats out of the movie money train.
Most code is the same as some other code.
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Two decades ago when doing stupid things with neural nets was fashionable in computer science, I built a neural net C compiler. Odd thing is it worked on small programs so I expanded it.
Its parser would takes code of the form foo=foo+bar; and reduces it to foo+=bar; or other minimal C with translation to var1+=var2; It would then hand that off to the NN compiler. It then ran every bit of C code I could find through it. Its interesting that there were only about 160 (if I remember right) common statements that appeared more than once and most of them were followed by a very limited subset of other statements. If you reduced a program another step into: common_line1; common_line23; common_line7;...
It ended up that many bits of code where exactly the same in many programs or had very small differences. The most interesting stat was most C used less than about 100 common statements but the guys at Bells Labs added about 40 (of which I think Joe Ossanna was responsible for 30 or so) and BSD guys added about 10. The IOCCC entries didn't change the results but I don't think the compiler ever got any of them right even after a cb and extra reduction step which says something about their code.
The interesting thing is the medical spam already has many state and federal laws that could be used by defense attorneys.
Remember, its still highly illegal to offer drugs to kids inside 1000 ft of a school. People have been busted when the dealer was outside of the area but the buyer was inside.
1. I know people who got paid to "find" unknown viruses. It was a long time ago so things may have changed but I don't see anything in a new anti-virus startup business model that would prevent them from doing such things.
Blaming the gullible people is easy but there is a very good chance that sometime in your life, you will lose some or all of your ability for some types of rational thought. I know several very smart people that are now in advanced states of mental breakdown and they can all be coned with very little effort.
Maybe he should have said "leave or sue them out of existence in a class action suit". The local public utility commissions will also eat the telcos alive for this.
VoIP is hackey because most of the protocols weren't thought out from the start. That how ever is irrelevant in the corporate world based on the same reasons as the top post which claims corps don't want point to point and they want control. Thats true for you using your VoIP phone in your cube as well. Even if it doesn't cost them anything for you to call your 3rd cousins best friend in Timbuktu, they want full control over what you do in your cube.
In some traffic engineering circles the concept surfaces of what happens if someone challenges the Right vs Privilege concept. I expect a good lawyer and a case based on something that is not safety related would win.
My grandfathers drivers license in Kansas cost $1. Its irrevocable, still legal and its transferrable.
I expect that if you dig deeper, you will find that the SAT bell curve for men tends to be much wider than for women. In that past most of the top performers were men but the average for women tends to be slightly above the average score for men. The other interesting thing is the averages for women have been slowly increasing faster than men.
This difference in bell curves isn't just for SAT tests either. If you look at income, the guys bell curves will be wider. If you at height differences, men have a wider range as well. About the only place men have a narrower bell curve is life expectancy.
The security problem is that Microsoft somehow managed to avoid the consumer recalls that would effect every other company. The law is clear that if your product does damages to unrelated 3rd parties that you must fix the situation and the common way is recalls. There should be a $1 cd at every computer shop and wal-mart in the world that allows for a reinstall of Windows 95+ with all the security problems fixed.
I really don't understand why the w3c is doing this. It seems they're purposely trying to make themselves irrelevant. Been watching the w3c for long? When they started out they were pushing for new standards that were completely ignored by the only real players. Later they got half a clue and documented what was happening. Then they went back to creating new standards that none would ever use. They like to claim they are the authoritative source for these types of standards but the reality is the IE team still is.
My take on XLM and its friends is that people who push it should pick up a copy of Knuths books and read about parsing. It also allows people to push the Input and Output specs of a program out of mind until much later in a project which is simply the worst computer science practice imaginable. Remember the old com sci model where a computer is 4 major processing bits: Input, Processing, Storage and Output. Once you lose track of that, the program is doomed.
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I see these new machines and are underwhelmed with their performance. They compare a brand new top of the line laptop to a year old design and the new one if mostly faster by a bit. I thought the idea of the dual core was to be much faster. Lets see a benchmark of a new PPC chip compared to these things and see how the number fall out? How about something like the new multi-core/multi-thread chip from sun as well? I just see the intel switch as being stuck with power hungry hardware that just isn't as impressive as if they put the more power hungry G4's in a laptop.
So AOL wants to sell their addresses to spamers who will then pay them to send AOL customers special offers that bypass the spam filters. Then AOL gives the message a special symbol to show its legit. This means that every message with the extra symbol is spam so it can be ignored.
No, mores law claims the transistor density (or now the data density) doubles ever 18 mo. It turns out that increases the problems you can solve in a non linear way. A great example of this is the hardware multiplier. Once transistor density got tot he point where you could put a hardware multiplier on the chip, you could do a 16 bit multiply about 60 times faster than using the add/shift technique so you do do far more complex work. There are also massive gains in DNA sequencing once you could build a machine that could hold an entire DNA strand in memory so it didn't have to be doing comparisons off disk which resulted in a several million time speedup.
Far more than a billion songs have been listened to on AM radio and people went out and bought them but that doesn't prove AM radio is reasonable. 128 ACC is fine for background entertainment but if a quiet room and I only want to focus on the music, its just nasty.
Big deal. If I could get a modern G5 in the same box it would more than 4x faster than 3 year old G4 stuff as well and based on rumors, run with less power so the battery would last longer. One benchmark I saw the Intel Imac did 55 frames per second while an AMD at the same speed running a hacked OSX did 75 and the quad core G5 only did 155.
I would love to see that Sparc CPU in a mac but I don't think its going to happen since King Steve wants to play golf with the CEO of a company that used to be on top of the x86 architecture.
Why is Steve so good when he has to appease the board but delivers such junk after he's been crowned King of Apple?
I have a 4 channel DVCR with ethernet that doesn't use windows on the main system but has a windows app that displays recorded images. Mine records a frame every 1/5 sec onto a 40gig hd and it seems to work ok using cheap cameras. I've looked at the data and I don't think it would take much to write a program for Linux or OS-X. The unit I have is identical to the top 4 channel network unit here.
No OS can defend against the end user deliberately running malicious code
Its trivial to check the 1st few blocks of a program against a table and not let the user run it even if they keep clicking on the shiny icon. This feature should have been built into every version of windows since about 3.1 since DOS 5 even did this to keep from running things.
The x86 stack is much easier to abuse than the PPC or Sparc stack. This is why many of the recent exploits for Solaris are x86 only. I expect the same will be true for the x86 OS-X as well.
They can fix the second part too. Microware OS-9 (Not related to Mac OS9 in any way) for the 6809/68000 would CRC check each executable and there were patches so that you could keep a program with a specific CRC from running. There should be a table in the OS of hashes of things not to run ever with a second table of overrides for the local admin/user to maintain independently than the one that could get updated every time software update gets run.
There is no excuse for malware other than incompetence on the part of the OS vendor. Even blaming the lusers only goes so far. I also think people who get hit with malware DDOS should start asking the OS vendors for compensation based on existing product liability laws, innocent third party laws and product recall laws.
Samsung makes phones. They will leapfrog it by building a real phone into it if they are smart. With a bit of work, I think you could pull the 2 gig flash card out of a nano and replace it with a phone chipset assuming you can get access to audio in. Add in some firmware to run it all and then all you would need is a pair of external mic for noise cancelation and you've got a phone, in an ipod and people will stop carrying around another device.
If Apple owns Disney and Sony owns MGM then the MPAA's days could be numbered since the two of them don't agree with how the MPAA is trying to control new media. It might be a great way to pull a large number of high dollar useless fat cats out of the movie money train.
Two decades ago when doing stupid things with neural nets was fashionable in computer science, I built a neural net C compiler. Odd thing is it worked on small programs so I expanded it.
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Its parser would takes code of the form foo=foo+bar; and reduces it to foo+=bar; or other minimal C with translation to var1+=var2; It would then hand that off to the NN compiler. It then ran every bit of C code I could find through it. Its interesting that there were only about 160 (if I remember right) common statements that appeared more than once and most of them were followed by a very limited subset of other statements.
If you reduced a program another step into:
common_line1;
common_line23;
common_line7;
It ended up that many bits of code where exactly the same in many programs or had very small differences.
The most interesting stat was most C used less than about 100 common statements but the guys at Bells Labs added about 40 (of which I think Joe Ossanna was responsible for 30 or so) and BSD guys added about 10. The IOCCC entries didn't change the results but I don't think the compiler ever got any of them right even after a cb and extra reduction step which says something about their code.
I've been using ^TVqQAAMAAAAEAAA for a very long time but it appears yours is more complete.
The interesting thing is the medical spam already has many state and federal laws that could be used by defense attorneys.
Remember, its still highly illegal to offer drugs to kids inside 1000 ft of a school. People have been busted when the dealer was outside of the area but the buyer was inside.
1. I know people who got paid to "find" unknown viruses. It was a long time ago so things may have changed but I don't see anything in a new anti-virus startup business model that would prevent them from doing such things.
Got a name for the specific signature your referring to? There are plenty in that list that aren't too useful anymore.
Blaming the gullible people is easy but there is a very good chance that sometime in your life, you will lose some or all of your ability for some types of rational thought. I know several very smart people that are now in advanced states of mental breakdown and they can all be coned with very little effort.
Maybe he should have said "leave or sue them out of existence in a class action suit".
The local public utility commissions will also eat the telcos alive for this.
VoIP is hackey because most of the protocols weren't thought out from the start. That how ever is irrelevant in the corporate world based on the same reasons as the top post which claims corps don't want point to point and they want control. Thats true for you using your VoIP phone in your cube as well. Even if it doesn't cost them anything for you to call your 3rd cousins best friend in Timbuktu, they want full control over what you do in your cube.
In some traffic engineering circles the concept surfaces of what happens if someone challenges the Right vs Privilege concept. I expect a good lawyer and a case based on something that is not safety related would win.
My grandfathers drivers license in Kansas cost $1. Its irrevocable, still legal and its transferrable.
I expect that if you dig deeper, you will find that the SAT bell curve for men tends to be much wider than for women. In that past most of the top performers were men but the average for women tends to be slightly above the average score for men. The other interesting thing is the averages for women have been slowly increasing faster than men.
This difference in bell curves isn't just for SAT tests either. If you look at income, the guys bell curves will be wider. If you at height differences, men have a wider range as well. About the only place men have a narrower bell curve is life expectancy.
I guess "Do no evil is dead"...
Not a single browser I have on this laptop would show the graphs "out of the box"...
The security problem is that Microsoft somehow managed to avoid the consumer recalls that would effect every other company. The law is clear that if your product does damages to unrelated 3rd parties that you must fix the situation and the common way is recalls. There should be a $1 cd at every computer shop and wal-mart in the world that allows for a reinstall of Windows 95+ with all the security problems fixed.
I really don't understand why the w3c is doing this. It seems they're purposely trying to make themselves irrelevant.
Been watching the w3c for long? When they started out they were pushing for new standards that were completely ignored by the only real players. Later they got half a clue and documented what was happening. Then they went back to creating new standards that none would ever use. They like to claim they are the authoritative source for these types of standards but the reality is the IE team still is.
My take on XLM and its friends is that people who push it should pick up a copy of Knuths books and read about parsing. It also allows people to push the Input and Output specs of a program out of mind until much later in a project which is simply the worst computer science practice imaginable. Remember the old com sci model where a computer is 4 major processing bits: Input, Processing, Storage and Output. Once you lose track of that, the program is doomed.