full of dog shit or not, how long do you think these expensive autonomous devices would last on the streets of any large city or town before someone botnaps it!;)
After working for Grey Interactive UK for 18 months the tech slowdown eventually forced them to loose staff. throughout this process we were consulted and kept up to date with goings on, and when it came to the inevitable announcement I was one of approx 30% of the company. I was told that GIUK would try to place me with another Grey company, and if unsuccessful, within a month I would be made redundant. I was free to use the facilities to print CVs, browse the net, and generally look for work. I chose not to pursue a relocation to another Grey office, and spent most of the time out of the office, however, it was good to know there was some support there.
I found work with a company called Zinc a few weeks later and things were looking up, however after five weeks (yes weeks) I was called up, out of the blue with no forewarning. I was told their parent company was asking then to make redundancies (much like grey), and as it was a Last in First Out basis, I was to go.. I was escorted out the building and given a weeks notice pay.
in retrospect I feel I was treated fairly by Grey and discovered that small things can make such a huge difference in how you perceive you are being treated.
I think the most important thing is to keep your employees informed. It was such an amazing shock to me and I still feel rather bitter about it (while having fonder memories of my time at Grey (of course I was pretty pissed off about it at the time))
I have since found a new job... far from ideal, however beggars can't be choosers in the current tech climate
Now don't fear... Even though it makes any code breakable it also inherently creates an unbreakable code using the same theories...
Yes, but if this is now feasible, how long before this technology will be available to the average member of the public (if at all).
this may be what governments have been waiting for. Easily crackable encryption for the public, and quantum encryption for the Top Brass, with the technology too expensive (or legislated against) for normal people
In the UK, Teletext subtitles are used to alert the VCR to the start/end of a commercial break (a square block appears in the bottom right corner of the screen). I don't know how frequently this is used and/or whether all commercial terrestrial channels support it, but this has been in place for years (is this still working? I seem to remember seeing one the other day).
...also, perhaps some software could be used to detect that strobing black/white block that appears a minute or so before a break.
To be honest I'm not really bothered. An earlier poster mentioned that a top spec PC will undoubatably be fast enough for current day applications.
MHz is obviously not a h;ard and fast guage to a processors overall power, so why not be a bit more detailed in how you describe a processor:
4 tests: Dhrystone, Whetstone, Integer, Floating point. all guaged on a scale from AA -> ZZ with for example, Dhrystone AA = ~2000 MIPS and ZZ being something that could conceiveably be possible in a CPU 700 or so generations down the line. Apply similar scalings over the other three benchmarks (or whatever benchmarks you determine to be meaningful) and you have somethng that means more to the customer than plain old MHz
Someone who does CAD for a living may be advised by some consumer PC pagazine that Column 1 is what to look for in a processor, and can choose accordingly. A Gamer may be looking for other factors.
5 years down the line, a processor may be billed as BR/BC/BP/AZ, which will still be meaningfull compared to other processors of it's age.
Of course you'd be fighting an uphill struggle to get chip makers to publish the standard code when promoting their latest monster, let alone use it as part of their model number. It would certianly help people researching buying a new pc or processor to make an informed descision as to what they were actually buying.
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Take one CD-R marker/pen, write CD key on the CD, throw away sleeve. Job done! :p
full of dog shit or not, how long do you think these expensive autonomous devices would last on the streets of any large city or town before someone botnaps it! ;)
I've been made redundant twice this year.
After working for Grey Interactive UK for 18 months the tech slowdown eventually forced them to loose staff. throughout this process we were consulted and kept up to date with goings on, and when it came to the inevitable announcement I was one of approx 30% of the company. I was told that GIUK would try to place me with another Grey company, and if unsuccessful, within a month I would be made redundant. I was free to use the facilities to print CVs, browse the net, and generally look for work. I chose not to pursue a relocation to another Grey office, and spent most of the time out of the office, however, it was good to know there was some support there.
I found work with a company called Zinc a few weeks later and things were looking up, however after five weeks (yes weeks) I was called up, out of the blue with no forewarning. I was told their parent company was asking then to make redundancies (much like grey), and as it was a Last in First Out basis, I was to go.. I was escorted out the building and given a weeks notice pay.
in retrospect I feel I was treated fairly by Grey and discovered that small things can make such a huge difference in how you perceive you are being treated.
I think the most important thing is to keep your employees informed. It was such an amazing shock to me and I still feel rather bitter about it (while having fonder memories of my time at Grey (of course I was pretty pissed off about it at the time))
I have since found a new job... far from ideal, however beggars can't be choosers in the current tech climate
Now don't fear... Even though it makes any code breakable it also inherently creates an unbreakable code using the same theories...
Yes, but if this is now feasible, how long before this technology will be available to the average member of the public (if at all).
this may be what governments have been waiting for. Easily crackable encryption for the public, and quantum encryption for the Top Brass, with the technology too expensive (or legislated against) for normal people
...also, perhaps some software could be used to detect that strobing black/white block that appears a minute or so before a break.
MHz is obviously not a h;ard and fast guage to a processors overall power, so why not be a bit more detailed in how you describe a processor:
4 tests: Dhrystone, Whetstone, Integer, Floating point. all guaged on a scale from AA -> ZZ with for example, Dhrystone AA = ~2000 MIPS and ZZ being something that could conceiveably be possible in a CPU 700 or so generations down the line. Apply similar scalings over the other three benchmarks (or whatever benchmarks you determine to be meaningful) and you have somethng that means more to the customer than plain old MHz
AMD processor x: AA/AB/AC/AB
Intel processor y: AC/AA/AA/AB
Someone who does CAD for a living may be advised by some consumer PC pagazine that Column 1 is what to look for in a processor, and can choose accordingly. A Gamer may be looking for other factors.
5 years down the line, a processor may be billed as BR/BC/BP/AZ, which will still be meaningfull compared to other processors of it's age.
Of course you'd be fighting an uphill struggle to get chip makers to publish the standard code when promoting their latest monster, let alone use it as part of their model number. It would certianly help people researching buying a new pc or processor to make an informed descision as to what they were actually buying.