Which shows that upper management's personal data is exposed. Like credit card accounts, their personal calendar, the bills they pay etc. This is a tactic a white hat buddy of mine uses and it works like a charm. Security is "blah blah blah" until some executive's credit card number is threatened to be exposed on the open internet.
Other than that, you have to consider it from their perspective, it still does it's job. You could push it over the edge by proposing new functionality that will intentionally break it, thus moving them to fire fighting mode. Other than that, it's really a social problem and requires a social solution, not a technical one.
What's the quote? "Idle hands are the Devil's work at play". Once the whole making a living thing is out of the way you're really left with your character. If it was lacking to begin with then the problem is just exasperated, the contrary is also true. Really, all that's left is your moral compass and what motivates you as a person. No one is immune from this. The saying that money changes people is only addressing the symptom, money allows people to express themselves as they truly are.
You clearly have never fired a gun or have any idea of what the self-defense laws look like in the U.S. Even with Castle Doctrine laws, you are only authorized to use force if you are in imminent target of lethal or non-lethal force. Shooting people in the back as they take off with someone else's property is completely unjustified, as you not in danger. Before you continue dramatically dreaming up events to justify your philosophy, think about the hard working, law abiding citizen, who is just about to lose everything he ever will be (his life) from not complying with the muggers demands vs bankrupting his future defending his life in court.
Stuff like this should never happen, had that lawyer not stepped in to defend this man for free he would be bankrupt, and perhaps worse, plead out to a lesser crime. All because he refused to turn his back on a man with a knife.
You don't appear to be aware that the SCOTUS ruling where the police are in fact not responsible for your personal safety.
In the end, who was really responsible for the lives of those 3 children? Now dead. The mother who wasn't keeping an eye on them, or the police who failed to enforce the restraining order on the estranged husband in a timely matter?
I would get annoyed if people regularly used the summit area to goof off with video cameras or any other tech for that matter. Even talking on a cell phone up there will net you many dirty looks. Mt. Monadnock is one of the most frequently scaled mountains in the world, it can get crowded up there. Were folks to make putting on little shows like this on a regular basis it would get old real fast and spoil the natural beauty of the area.
The licensing proposed wasn't punitive to the point where the average person couldn't meet the burden. When I'm out there, it's to enjoy nature, and not be the subject of every film student or bored hippee trying to score hits on youtube or drum up publicity for their business.
The licensing is meant to curb the frequency of these events and keep the state park focused on it's primary goals. It is *not* a general use area, you can't even camp or start a fire on the mountain.
Instead of... 1) an adaptive traffic phasing (that's the term for light changes) system 2) creating a tunnel for the dominant traffic route under the rotary 3) changing the traffic in that area entirely
A roundabout is used instead. It costs very little to maintain, and there's no lights to change. Its sad though, once these choke points pop up drivers resort to driving in the surrounding, heavily settled back roads, as fast as they can get away with. Which just creates more safety problems.
After visiting Europe often, it struck me that when the new world was formed that none of the city planners got on the first boats:(. America needs better city planning, and then things like better public transportation and less cars will follow.
Sony thought they could raise the bar for disposable income and failed. I've got a plasma set, a game console or two, and an upsampling DVD player and don't feel like I'm missing a thing. If I was, I sure as heck don't love any move enough to spend 25-35 bucks to bring it home. The value just isn't there. Coupled with the trend of recycled ideas from Hollywood and the increasing penetration of reality tv, the set of stuff I'm willing to own on disc keeps getting smaller.
If they stop the pricing nonsense and make them as cheap as DVDs then they could see some real market penetration.
Yeah, but you're presupposing that Apple is a fair platform to begin with. I used to an Apple user for over 5 years but I refused to stay with them after they enacted the "powermac tax" where I had to spend an extra $1000 just to have a PCI slot. I've been an exclusive Linux user for the better part of a decade now.
You're right about the App store lock in, but it's not against the law to make profits. Overall, I don't "get" the iPad and the value proposition it's selling, it ought to cost half as much with the restrictions that come along with it. It reminds me more of a kindle than anything else. Vote with your dollars and try to promote the JooJoo instead which seems to fully support Flash and Java.
Also, the App store as it currently stands doesn't make up a huge portion of Apple's current revenue but with the introduction of this, the continued success of the iphone, and the likely Kindle like integration for "songs on demand" for the next gen iPod and support for the app store; the app store's share of revenue will continue to grow with no limit in sight.
Thank you for spelling out the conclusions Apple likely made (internally) leading up to the decision not to support flash on it's initial release and brain storming some possible solutions. I don't see why the problem you've defined is anything more than just another engineering challenge. The web is a pretty elastic place, I'm sure it'll evolve as touch screen interfaces become more mainstream. I encourage you to view this as an opportunity to make a ton of money instead of a crisis.
I'm a big fan re-writing notes, it forces you to re-examine the stuff that didn't totally sink in during lecture. Rewriting them in digital form makes it that much more portable, cleaner, and you can bring your friends up to speed faster. Engineering notebooks (wire bound) plus a good mechanical pencil was what I settled while I was an engineering student. Couple re-writing the notes in digital form with a audio recording of the lecture and you're golden. Alternatively, you can scan your notes in and then annotate them.
Then you should never step foot on a commercial air liner again. The article is over generalizing and essentially amounts to fear mongering. I've personally experienced having a throttle cable snap, thank God it failed closed, I've heard stories that went the other way... Control system failures happen, the least we can expect from the manufacturers is that they fail safe. "drive by wire" is in essence a good thing. So say the next time the pedal fails, the system could determine a fault occurred and cut the throttle; it might even turn your hazards on in the future to alert the drivers around you.
You'll find that once you start working that there's nothing you can't pick up by reading a few books. Unless you want to be an engineer forever (it's a burn out industry), I'd suggest that you start working on your MBA after say 4-5 years in the field. By the time you're finished you'll easily have the chops to be a project manager (at the very least a team lead) and then something more.
That is unless you have some idea you're passionate about that you want to pursue a thesis with, in which case you should pursue a PhD and not a Masters.
It's so much simpler and cost effective than the Aeron. The chair moves with you, the seat pan, the lower lumbar support, it's great. It's arm rests are fully adjustable, vertically, forward/back, and side to side. The lower back support actually works and doesn't feel like someone stuck a piece of wood behind your back. You can adjust it's height and it's depth. I've owned one now for 2 years now and have no regrets. I have back problems and this is the only chair I can sit in without being miserable when I use a computer.
If you really want to go all out, get the forward tilt option. The only reason I didn't is that the lead time was an extra 1-2 weeks. I should also mention that it was really easy to setup. It came in one big box and in two parts, the seat and base. All I had to do was drop the seat onto the base and it was ready, no tools were necessary.
You're trading low mercury content for all the toxic waste that is generated in the process of creating a semi-conductor, which is what an LED is. Is that really a win? It might be better for the environment at this junction to use a standard light bulb and let greener forms of alternative energy catch up.
Honestly it just sounds like the University is in a financial bind when it comes to attracting new Professors and then keeping them. These guys can easily make six figures consulting, some still do so while they're professors, others even have businesses on the side; using a sabbatical to get it off the ground. Engineering is expensive, lab space and equipment costs money, real estate on campus to build new research facilities is at a premium (which is critical to attracting some Professors). The worst of it is that less Americans want to become engineers today then they say 10 years ago. Then there's the dropout rate... So sure the tuition may be higher but because of the attrition rate they're basically breaking even.
They shouldn't be raising the price on tuition on just Engineering but across the board.
Those fees you're paying are to support the lab equipment you're using, including the computer rooms and the ridiculous pricing on EDA tools. If you're college is anything like mine, that Engineering fee went towards a budget for our senior design project where every team got $500 to make their 1 year design project a reality, honors projects got more, and you can even get your project sponsored by a company which will just throw money at you. Just last year we had a project funded by Raytheon and another by NASA. Also, we have a entire lab dedicated for that purpose and all the incidental parts costs, your caps, resistors, etc where already there to use at no additional cost. Instead of being upset at the fee and wondering how could they justify the fee, just ask, I'm sure they'd be happy to tell you.
I wrote a short paper concerning RFID technology about a year ago, it mostly concerned the hardware and systems architecture. There was no shortage of reports and studies of RFID keys being cracked like the mobile speedpass http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/jan05/rfi d.html.
http://www.ti.com/rfid/shtml/news-releases-rel02-1 0-05.shtml. Some of these passive rfid tags have no access control whatsoever. Meaning one take a small RFID programmer into their favorite store and start changing prices, or worse, write a virus to the RFID tag so the next time it's polled it'll get injected into their SQL DB. Possibly compromising their entire POS system. Ironically, this sort of stunt if done well enough could result in a jackpot of creditcard numbers so it wouldn't matter if you used an RFID enabled card or not at that point:).
From which comes a nice quote, this is from 2005. "The TI technology is vulnerable to attack because it uses a decade-old, 40-bit cryptographic key to encrypt communications between the RFID DST tags and readers, the researchers found. TI also used an unknown and proprietary encryption algorithm on its DST devices. But Rubin's team reverse-engineered the secret algorithm by observing how DST tags responded to specially crafted challenges. Once they guessed the algorithm, researchers created a software program that could be used in so-called brute-force attacks on DST devices to recover the secret cryptographic keys, Rubin said."
The site, http://rfidanalysis.org/ that hosted these findings no longer exists but you could probably find it cached on the net somewhere, wayback machine maybe.
Remember that RFID represents a system and not one piece of technology. The implementation of the system is dependent on the deployment plan. I could make an "RFID system" with 2 933Mhz radios and a pair of 8-bit microcontrollers from digikey for around $150. Sure, you could pull my data out of the air, but technically speaking I'm using RFID. I could also build my own RFID key system with 2048-bit encryption to act as the keys to my car. It's not that difficult to develop, really just assembling existing technologies. RFID can be done "right" and it is a promising technology. I wouldn't shun it for alot of commercial applications but for personal applications, well ask yourself the question. Is this thing a necessary part of your life?
Before I could backup to my account status to their online thingee for free. Now all of a sudden they want to charge for the service. I can't really blame them. They are in business to make money... That was with the home and small business package. I was thinking of switching to "MY OB Firstedge" since I jsut bought a Mac. Anyone have any experiences regarding that software, good or bad?
BTW I run debian on Alpha. Just so happens to be the best damned distribution I've ever used.
"It just works"
Peter
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The AMD is reverse compatible with 32bit and the two can coexsit granting the host OS has both supporting 32 bit and 64 bit libraries, Alot like Solaris. What makes Hammer's introduction so critical is the potential to upset the entire balance of the whole PC market. I'm not telling you 'not' to do it. I telling you what the future may hold. Take for example openoffice. Now Sun itself won't dare port that to 64 bits even for it's own OS because it's just too damn big. They're using the same "tricks" we use in Alpha land to compile 32bit programas to use 64 bit addressing. There's a HUGE performance hit incured when this is run their true 64
bit chips. Their older ones, alot like the hammer can turn that extension on and off without penalty.
Now let's take another company for an example that will probably be pushed by it's userbase to port to 64, Adobe. These are the same guys that said no to recompiling photoshop on NT/Alpha. Remember that NT on Alpha is a 32 bit OS, there's no 64 bit isms to deal with. Now, When you have to invest to port an application like photoshop to 64 bits. The work is so huge that you can be open to all sorts of possibilities including adding/removing platforms. When the move is that big, why not consider it???
Major application vendors could tell MS to take a hike and move to Linux or whatever does the best job at supporting a 64 bit architecture. This also puts those same vendors in some extreme risk. What happens if the competition gets their port done before yours? What could it cost the company? Fear of new upstarts with 'clean' codebases who can get their product to market faster, with more "feathers in their hat", and no legacy apps and plugins to support. It's huge.
64 bit isn't next gen or even future gen technology, It's "then gen". 10 years now Alpha has been out there. There are some companies out there who already have 64 bit ports done or on the way with no public knowledge. Ready to play that trump card on the competition.
If you own a hammer and their are two apps you're considering to buy. One is 64 bit and one isn't, Which one is going to get more consideration from the start? That's the big deal and that's why I'm so serious about it. When you're not bound by platforms anymore it's a function of "what works best?". I could be Linux/Hammer, PPC64/MAC, Itanium/HPUX, or even AlphaLinux.
Peter
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With an emphasis on the last line. "If Intel goes with x86-64, Mark my words; It's the beginning of the end for Intel. We're going to trade one chipzilla for another"
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Oh, I realized it. I just failed to mention it:). I've been doing this for along time so please forgive me if I forget to mention a nuance or two:).
This time, It's not as straight forward as AGP 4x or something. There are huge costs in porting existing code bases to take advantage of 64 bit. Newly designed applications will be fine (see previous post).
I'll reiterate once again. The desktop is an afterthough, You get the extenstion for free. It's in the servers where the money is to be made.
Slashdot Mirror
Which shows that upper management's personal data is exposed. Like credit card accounts,
their personal calendar, the bills they pay etc. This is a tactic a white hat buddy of mine uses
and it works like a charm. Security is "blah blah blah" until some executive's credit card
number is threatened to be exposed on the open internet.
Other than that, you have to consider it from their perspective, it still does it's job. You
could push it over the edge by proposing new functionality that will intentionally break
it, thus moving them to fire fighting mode. Other than that, it's really a social problem
and requires a social solution, not a technical one.
What's the quote? "Idle hands are the Devil's work at play". Once the whole making a living thing
is out of the way you're really left with your character. If it was lacking to begin with then the problem
is just exasperated, the contrary is also true. Really, all that's left is your moral compass and what
motivates you as a person. No one is immune from this. The saying that money changes people
is only addressing the symptom, money allows people to express themselves as they truly are.
You clearly have never fired a gun or have any idea of what the self-defense laws look like in the U.S. Even with Castle Doctrine laws, you are only authorized to use force if you are in imminent target of lethal or non-lethal force. Shooting people in the back as they take off with someone else's property is completely unjustified, as you not in danger. Before you continue dramatically dreaming up events to justify your philosophy, think about the hard working, law abiding citizen, who is just about to lose everything he ever will be (his life) from not complying with the muggers demands vs bankrupting his future defending his life in court.
http://itemlive.com/articles/2012/01/12/news/news01.txt
Stuff like this should never happen, had that lawyer not stepped in to defend this man for free he would be bankrupt, and perhaps worse, plead out to a lesser crime. All because he refused to turn his back on a man with a knife.
You don't appear to be aware that the SCOTUS ruling where the police are in fact not responsible for your
personal safety.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html
In the end, who was really responsible for the lives of those 3 children? Now dead. The mother who wasn't keeping an eye
on them, or the police who failed to enforce the restraining order on the estranged husband in a timely matter?
I would get annoyed if people regularly used the summit area to goof
off with video cameras or any other tech for that matter. Even talking on
a cell phone up there will net you many dirty looks. Mt. Monadnock is
one of the most frequently scaled mountains in the world, it can get
crowded up there. Were folks to make putting on little shows like this
on a regular basis it would get old real fast and spoil the natural beauty
of the area.
The licensing proposed wasn't punitive to the point where the average
person couldn't meet the burden. When I'm out there, it's to enjoy nature,
and not be the subject of every film student or bored hippee trying to score hits
on youtube or drum up publicity for their business.
The licensing is meant to curb the frequency of these events and
keep the state park focused on it's primary goals. It is *not* a
general use area, you can't even camp or start a fire on the
mountain.
Peter
Instead of...
1) an adaptive traffic phasing (that's the term for light changes) system
2) creating a tunnel for the dominant traffic route under the rotary
3) changing the traffic in that area entirely
A roundabout is used instead. It costs very little to maintain, and there's
no lights to change. Its sad though, once these choke points
pop up drivers resort to driving in the surrounding, heavily settled
back roads, as fast as they can get away with. Which just creates
more safety problems.
After visiting Europe often, it struck me that when the new world was :(. America
formed that none of the city planners got on the first boats
needs better city planning, and then things like better public transportation
and less cars will follow.
Or we can look forward to more crap like this:
http://newenglandthings.tumblr.com/post/6801503864/rotary-in-east-longmeadow-massachusetts
Sony thought they could raise the bar for disposable income and failed. I've got a plasma
set, a game console or two, and an upsampling DVD player and don't feel like I'm
missing a thing. If I was, I sure as heck don't love any move enough to spend 25-35
bucks to bring it home. The value just isn't there. Coupled with the trend of recycled
ideas from Hollywood and the increasing penetration of reality tv, the set of stuff
I'm willing to own on disc keeps getting smaller.
If they stop the pricing nonsense and make them as cheap as DVDs then they
could see some real market penetration.
God you're a dumbass. There isn't a single true statement in your entire post.
Hmmm...
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5699214/rebuilding_of_st_nicholas_greek_orthodox.html?cat=9
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/18/leaders-disappointed-government-declares-deal-rebuild-ground-zero-church-dead/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/nyregion/24greek.html
Here, have some facts. Thanks.
How much do you want to bet that this is the same percentage of
the population that's living on the governments dime?
It's supposed to be the successor to the "crunchpad", which was
Linux based.
http://techie-buzz.com/gadgets-news/joojoo-linux-based-tablet-pc.html
I don't know how hackable it'll be, it reminds me of HP's mini mii
which is supposed to be locked down version of Ubuntu.
When it comes to technology I like to take the long view:
"yesterday's technology tomorrow"
Not as exciting, but less expensive for sure.
Yeah, but you're presupposing that Apple is a fair platform
to begin with. I used to an Apple user for over 5 years but
I refused to stay with them after they enacted the "powermac tax"
where I had to spend an extra $1000 just to have a PCI slot. I've
been an exclusive Linux user for the better part of a decade now.
You're right about the App store lock in, but it's not against
the law to make profits. Overall, I don't "get" the iPad and the
value proposition it's selling, it ought to cost half as much with
the restrictions that come along with it. It reminds me more of
a kindle than anything else. Vote with your dollars and try
to promote the JooJoo instead which seems to fully support Flash
and Java.
https://thejoojoo.com/sites/specification
Also, the App store as it currently stands doesn't make up a
huge portion of Apple's current revenue but with the
introduction of this, the continued success of the iphone, and
the likely Kindle like integration for "songs on demand" for
the next gen iPod and support for the app store; the app store's
share of revenue will continue to grow with no limit in sight.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/137873-a-closer-look-at-those-iphone-app-store-revenue-numbers
Thank you for spelling out the conclusions Apple likely made (internally) leading up to the decision not to support flash on
it's initial release and brain storming some possible solutions. I don't see why the problem you've defined is anything more
than just another engineering challenge. The web is a pretty elastic place, I'm sure it'll evolve as touch screen interfaces
become more mainstream. I encourage you to view this as an opportunity to make a ton of money instead of a crisis.
I'm a big fan re-writing notes, it forces you to re-examine the stuff that didn't totally sink in
during lecture. Rewriting them in digital form makes it that much more portable, cleaner, and
you can bring your friends up to speed faster. Engineering notebooks (wire bound) plus a good
mechanical pencil was what I settled while I was an engineering student. Couple re-writing
the notes in digital form with a audio recording of the lecture and you're golden. Alternatively,
you can scan your notes in and then annotate them.
Tablet computers were always good for homework.
Then you should never step foot on a commercial air liner again. The article is over generalizing
and essentially amounts to fear mongering. I've personally experienced having a throttle cable
snap, thank God it failed closed, I've heard stories that went the other way... Control system failures
happen, the least we can expect from the manufacturers is that they fail safe. "drive by wire" is in essence
a good thing. So say the next time the pedal fails, the system could determine a fault occurred
and cut the throttle; it might even turn your hazards on in the future to alert the drivers around you.
You'll find that once you start working that there's nothing you
can't pick up by reading a few books. Unless you want to be an engineer
forever (it's a burn out industry), I'd suggest that you start working
on your MBA after say 4-5 years in the field. By the time you're finished
you'll easily have the chops to be a project manager (at the very least a team lead) and then something more.
That is unless you have some idea you're passionate about that you want to pursue a thesis with, in which case you should pursue a PhD and not a Masters.
It's so much simpler and cost effective than the Aeron. The chair moves with you,
the seat pan, the lower lumbar support, it's great. It's arm rests are fully adjustable, vertically, forward/back, and side to side. The lower back support actually works and doesn't feel like someone stuck a piece of wood behind your back. You can adjust it's height and it's depth. I've owned one now for 2 years now and have no regrets. I have back problems and this is the only chair I can sit in without being miserable when I use a computer.
http://store.steelcase.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=LEAPV2
If you really want to go all out, get the forward tilt option. The only
reason I didn't is that the lead time was an extra 1-2 weeks. I should also
mention that it was really easy to setup. It came in one big box and in two parts, the seat and base. All I had to do was drop the seat onto the base and it was ready, no tools were necessary.
You're trading low mercury content for all the toxic waste that is generated in the process of creating a semi-conductor, which is what an LED is. Is that really a win? It might be better for the environment at this junction to use a standard light bulb and let greener forms of alternative energy catch up.
Honestly it just sounds like the University is in a financial bind when it comes to attracting new Professors and then keeping them. These guys can easily make six figures consulting, some still do so while they're professors, others even have businesses on the side; using a sabbatical to get it off the ground. Engineering is expensive, lab space and equipment costs money, real estate on campus to build new research facilities is at a premium (which is critical to attracting some
Professors). The worst of it is that less Americans want to become engineers today then they say 10 years ago. Then there's the dropout rate... So sure the tuition may be higher but because of the attrition rate they're basically breaking even.
They shouldn't be raising the price on tuition on just Engineering but across the board.
Those fees you're paying are to support the lab equipment you're using, including the computer rooms and the ridiculous pricing on EDA tools. If you're college is anything like mine, that Engineering fee went towards a budget for our senior design project where every team got $500 to make their 1 year design project a reality, honors projects got more, and you can even get your project sponsored by a company which will just throw money at you. Just last year we had a project funded by Raytheon and another by NASA. Also, we have a entire lab dedicated for that purpose and all the incidental parts costs, your caps, resistors, etc where already there to use at no additional cost. Instead of being upset at the fee and wondering how could they justify the fee, just ask, I'm sure they'd be happy to tell you.
Peter
I wrote a short paper concerning RFID technology about a year ago, it mostly concerned the hardware and systems architecture. There was no shortage of reports and studies of RFID keys being cracked like the mobile speedpass http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/jan05/rfi d.html.
1 0-05.shtml. Some of these passive rfid tags have no access control whatsoever. Meaning one take a small RFID programmer into their favorite store and start changing prices, or worse, write a virus to the RFID tag so the next time it's polled it'll get injected into their SQL DB. Possibly compromising their entire POS system. Ironically, this sort of stunt if done well enough could result in a jackpot of creditcard numbers so it wouldn't matter if you used an RFID enabled card or not at that point :).
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http://www.ti.com/rfid/shtml/news-releases-rel02-
Some random RFID links.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/03/rfi
http://www.rfidgazette.org/2004/06/rfid_101.html
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/13
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.
http://www.enigmatic-consulting.com/Communication
A nice article on RFID virus attack
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B9
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/secur
From which comes a nice quote, this is from 2005.
"The TI technology is vulnerable to attack because it uses a decade-old, 40-bit cryptographic key to encrypt communications between the RFID DST tags and readers, the researchers found. TI also used an unknown and proprietary encryption algorithm on its DST devices. But Rubin's team reverse-engineered the secret algorithm by observing how DST tags responded to specially crafted challenges. Once they guessed the algorithm, researchers created a software program that could be used in so-called brute-force attacks on DST devices to recover the secret cryptographic keys, Rubin said."
The site, http://rfidanalysis.org/ that hosted these findings no longer exists but you could probably find it cached on the net somewhere, wayback machine maybe.
Remember that RFID represents a system and not one piece of technology. The implementation of the system is dependent on the deployment plan. I could make an "RFID system" with 2 933Mhz radios and a pair of 8-bit microcontrollers from digikey for around $150. Sure, you could pull my data out of the air, but technically speaking I'm using RFID. I could also build my own RFID key system with 2048-bit encryption to act as the keys to my car. It's not that difficult to develop, really just assembling existing technologies. RFID can be done "right" and it is a promising technology. I wouldn't shun it for alot of commercial applications but for personal applications, well ask yourself the question. Is this thing a necessary part of your life?
Peter
on their consumer routers. admin/1234. If you dont change it, its your ass.
Peter
That was really good dude!!!!
Before I could backup to my account status to their online thingee for
free. Now all of a sudden they want to charge for the service. I can't
really blame them. They are in business to make money... That was with
the home and small business package. I was thinking of switching to "MY OB Firstedge" since I jsut bought a Mac. Anyone have any experiences regarding that software, good or bad?
Peter
BTW I run debian on Alpha. Just so happens to be the best damned distribution I've ever used.
"It just works"
Peter
Now let's take another company for an example that will probably be pushed by it's userbase to port to 64, Adobe. These are the same guys that said no to recompiling photoshop on NT/Alpha. Remember that NT on Alpha is a 32 bit OS, there's no 64 bit isms to deal with. Now, When you have to invest to port an application like photoshop to 64 bits. The work is so huge that you can be open to all sorts of possibilities including adding/removing platforms. When the move is that big, why not consider it???
Major application vendors could tell MS to take a hike and move to Linux or whatever does the best job at supporting a 64 bit architecture. This also puts those same vendors in some extreme risk. What happens if the competition gets their port done before yours? What could it cost the company? Fear of new upstarts with 'clean' codebases who can get their product to market faster, with more "feathers in their hat", and no legacy apps and plugins to support. It's huge.
64 bit isn't next gen or even future gen technology, It's "then gen". 10 years now Alpha has been out there. There are some companies out there who already have 64 bit ports done or on the way with no public knowledge. Ready to play that trump card on the competition.
If you own a hammer and their are two apps you're considering to buy. One is 64 bit and one isn't, Which one is going to get more consideration from the start? That's the big deal and that's why I'm so serious about it. When you're not bound by platforms anymore it's a function of "what works best?". I could be Linux/Hammer, PPC64/MAC, Itanium/HPUX, or even AlphaLinux.
Peter
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With regards to option 4:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=46635&cid=4
With an emphasis on the last line.
"If Intel goes with x86-64, Mark my words; It's the beginning of the end for Intel. We're going to trade one chipzilla for another"
Peter
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This time, It's not as straight forward as AGP 4x or something. There are huge costs in porting existing code bases to take advantage of 64 bit. Newly designed applications will be fine (see previous post).
I'll reiterate once again. The desktop is an afterthough, You get the extenstion for free. It's in the servers where the money is to be made.
Peter